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[jgrafton]

Dear Lazyweb,

The battery in my Lenovo T60 died about a month ago - it no longer recharges - and has now trickled down to 4%, even though I've had it plugged in the whole time, and there hasn't been any power loss in my apartment.

Obviously, I need to replace it, but the official Lenovo battery is $expensive. There are off-brand versions available various places online, it seems - do any of you have any recommendations there?

PS I am never buying a Lenovo again, and I suggest you similarly avoid them.

Comments

[xsavvyx.livejournal.com]

Why do you suggest never buying a Lenovo again? I know the battery runs low, but all batteries do that eventually.

[jgrafton]

This isn't an issue of the battery running low, which all batteries do, as you mentioned - it has completely failed. It just stopped charging one day, with absolutely no warning. I've also had various other issues with Lenovo, including the screen completely failing on me about 9 months after purchase, and they took about 3 weeks to fix it, and did a somewhat shoddy job, too.

[alanv]

The battery issue sounds like my HP laptop.
Don't buy HP either.

[purplemoocow.livejournal.com]

i am hearing so many complaints about Lenovo laptops these days. which i find odd, because i could have sworn they were THE laptop that everyone was talking about.

relatedly, i need to replace my HP battery (had the laptop for about a year and made the stupid mistake of leaving the battery in when running on AC). the replacement of what i have is 130, but the battery never really had great life to begin with. am trying to decide if it's worth the extra 20 bucks to get the extended-life, 12-cell one.

all i know is that HP batteries tend to suck, and the laptops are power-drainers.

[jgrafton]

IBM made fantastic laptops. When Lenovo took over, they completely dropped the ball.

[stalkingmsd.livejournal.com]

I dunno, what you describe sounds like my last IBM thinkpad experience-- failing screen, failing battery that appears to discharge even when plugged in, etc.

IBM made great laptops... in the mid 90s.

[telemenar]

I don't know anyone that does make good laptops these days. I managed to get Lenovo to replace a battery for free at one point. But it was inside the 1 year warranty period for the battery.

[pfriedma.livejournal.com]

a123 has pretty good generics... the high-capacity one on my vaio lasted for about 3 years

[x77303066.livejournal.com]

Before you buy a new battery:

This happened to mine, new battery doesn't help it at all. I've heard theories that it's Vista's fault (fucking up the APCI) (but how does it not charge when powered-down?) (I haven't put in a linux livecd to verify), but the probable cause is mobo failure or just shoddy connections somewhere.

I think it's out of warranty... I'm keeping it going as a not-very-mobile laptop; the rest of it is fine and it's a pretty nice machine. Definitely pretty fucking lame though.