[ltp] poll: how is your battery? (9-cell-battery lost about 25% capacity in 10 months)

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On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, David A. Desrosiers wrote:

> 	Plan on replacing your battery roughly every year.

- which it looks is true, and is a pretty appalling state of affairs.
I don't have much to praise Dell about, but in general their
batteries didn't deteriorate significantly in capacity (i.e. they
were noticeably usable still) after 2-3 years.