[ltp] 770X Batteries

[Harry Mangalam]

I agreee - that this is somewhat irritating, although the critique is qualified.  I was VERY satisfied with the laptop and battery performance until this happened - it provided very good battery perf
until it just went blooey.  Hero to zero in one day. 
Becasue of this, I suspect an electronics failure rather than a battery failure - a number of people have mentioned that this battery has some kind of on-board controller to help it maintain
charge/prevent overcharge and I suspect that it's this that lost its mind for some reason.

I'm a bit ticked that I ihave to spend $200 to get a new battery (! a bit cheaper than IBM's $245 (from laptopsforless.com, which seems to have an odd number of aliases) - the cheapest I was able to
find after several hours of searching.

FWIW..

hjm




Brian Button wrote:
> 
> I have to agree. I got two new ones a little less than a year ago, as
> warrantee replacements, and they are both already going bad. If anyone knows
> of something cheaper than the stock IBM batteries, I'd love to know...
> 
> bab
> 
> ----
> Brian Button       bbutton@objectmentor.com
> Senior Consultant  Object Mentor, Inc.
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> 
> > I think I started that thread, my battery seemed a bit better
> > for a little
> > time, but is now gives me 30 seconds to run accross a room!
> >
> > If you find a cheep supply of batteries twll me, they seemed
> > very pricy
> > for something that will die again in a year :-(
> >
> > James
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Cheers,
Harry

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