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

[David Tansey]

I had a dell inspiron 8200 with two batteries. one lasted 1 year
before completely dying. the other lasted until i gave it away --
though the capacity was pretty short.

so my experience hasn't been the same as yours.

it's pretty sad that these batteries die so frequently. i got this
thing so i could take 7-8 hour flights and have the laptop usable for
most of that. if that's only true for three months, when your max is 6
hours, and then 5 hours after 6, etc, then it seems like false
advertisement.

are batteries really that bad? does better technology not exist?=20



On 7/11/05, honey@gneek.com <honey@gneek.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
>=20
> >       Plan on replacing your battery roughly every year.
>=20
> - 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.
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