Is there a reliable online seller (ebay etc) of laptop batteries? I want to replace the battery in my Dell laptop, have bought one from ebay in the past, but there are so many sellers that I thought it would be best to ask if someone has anyone to recommend...
Can’t suggest you a reliable seller, but here’s one tip: don’t buy a generic/”compatible” battery by some third-party manufacturer. Original batteries are many times better - they use A-grade 18650 cells from premium manufacturers like Panasonic, LG, Sanyo, Samsung, sometimes Sony, while generic aftermarket packs often come with crappy chinese cells in them.
I wouldn't buy a generic/compatible one, but seeing how many chinese sellers list "Dell" branded batteries, it leaves me wondering if they just get them from the same factory but they sell them cheaper (after all if you buy directly from Dell it is still China-made but you pay x4 the price because Dell marks up the price alot), or if they are generic that they have somehow rebranded to "Dell"...
Dell.
I’ve considered buying panasonic cells from fasttech and soldering them myself (till the hard drive died)
you can get more battery life and save a BUNDLE
be very careful, make sure not to short cuircuit, and its pretty tight since they are spot welded, but if you can precision solder, you won’t have any problems
Lol dell, their stuff is probably only better than the cheaper generics. Check on a hardware forum to see where the stuff is of decent quality, dell has a pretty active service/repair forum. They have so many users quite a number of the experienced users have organized the information in a useful way. Haven’t dealt with Dell in long time so can’t point you out to anything specific but look up the topic on google and try picking a result that links to a dell forum post.
Unless they produce an exception to their usual quality and it gets a lot of recommendations that include a look at the reliability I avoid Dell. Their most reliable stuff is in their business line and those are only just acceptable, they don’t match even the regular consumer panasonics, fujitsu, asus etc. Won’t even bring up comparison to enthusiast, business, and ruggedized versions of those brands (ruggedized tend to be lower specced anyway, but run reliably run through in all temps and are built like a tank).
I got a laptop battery from this seller last summer. The battery cost $17 instead of $130 from HP. The runtime was as good
as new. The laptop died so I harvested the batteries for my lights very good so far. YMMV aso gh10413ef 609189 purple color
http://myworld.ebay.com/multi-function1002?\_trksid=p2047675.l2559
Weren’t enthusiast-class (“gaming”) laptops essentially crap?
Business models of HP and Dell never gave me any issues… In fact, I have one Dell laptop back from 2002, and it still works just fine (except for battery being essentially dead), and one HP laptop from 2007 that works great too - and it’s battery isn’t even dead, still manages to run half a hour or so…
Depends, some brands had pretty solid performance/gaming laptops. Off the top of my head the high end Asus ones are pretty solid.
On the dell end it’s consistent with what i said, only their business laptops are tolerable, meaning the others including their “gaming” stuff is pretty flaky. Par for the course to hear about bad heatsinking and video cards needing their bpas reflowed.
Never said anything about HP, who are usually much better than dell. I’ve never looked at their laptops so don’t have an opinion on them.
Uh, in my real life experience, the only ASUS gaming laptop I touched was constantly overheating itself to a shutdown while gaming.
Menawhile Dell’s gaming laptops (Alienware) seem to be quite decent - my cousin has a M18x and it never gave him any problems.
…then again, Sager is the only brand one should ever consider for laptop gaming (which, by itself, is silly thing to do)
When the battery in my Macbook swelled I hit up eBay. Got a mid-priced battery from someone who specializes in batteries and had a great feedback. Fit perfectly, and 2 years later has great capacity at 89-90%
Not sure about Dell batteries - like most everything they make, it’s of poor quality.
Yeah gaming and laptop aren’t a good combo. As for the comparison between them there are always exceptions, for the most part dell systems use pretty cut rate components and it shows as the system ages (leaky caps, contact between heat spreaders and components seperating/warping, cracked bpas). Still if you aren’t the type to stretch out the use of the machine and you change it regularly they do typically represent better value for performance. Especially true if you don’t plan to push them too hard and get a bang for the buck system, sometimes they’re so much cheaper the fact that you can replace it sooner, and thus have a new machine with newer specs as well, more than makes up for it.
I support Dell systems where I work, and the standard Latitude series of laptops have been really reliable (An exception: The D600 that had motherboards start failing at a high rate just as the warranty ran out) but the higher-end Precision workstation laptops have always been more trouble. Mosty just the Video Card modules failing...
Tell us the EXACT battery model you ’re looking for…!
How about this