Hi chaps,
I'm looking for some advice on buying laptop batteries.
My laptop's a Dell N5010. I've had it for about 9 months, and the battery life has been uniformly terrible. I suspect this is because its a fairly powerful machine: dedicated graphics, i3 processor, 8gb of RAM, etc etc. Anyway, I can (if I really try) get the battery life down to half an hour, or up to about two hours if I'm watching a film with the screen brightness right down, and all the power saving measures available in use. Internet browsing and things like that get me around 1% = 1 minute, even with the power saving options via Win7 engaged.
For a new-ish laptop, this is below par.
Currently I use it only as a desktop machine, as the limited battery life means its not much use taking it anywhere, as it'll be dead in a couple of hours anyway.
This brings me on to my search for more battery capacity.
I haven't got a problem with carrying a second (or third) battery around with me, but of course that involves choosing which replacement batteries to buy in the first place.
I've had a look on eBay and there's an awful lot of batteries to choose from.
There's some Dell batteries, coming in around £40 for another one of what I have. This would double my battery life, which is quite nice.
However, there are other batteries available for much lower prices, or a similar price but considerably more capacity (usually 6.6Ah, up from 4.4).
So, has anyone else tried these unofficial replacement batteries?
Would appreciate some guidance through the pitfalls here.
TIA
Chris
I'm looking for some advice on buying laptop batteries.
My laptop's a Dell N5010. I've had it for about 9 months, and the battery life has been uniformly terrible. I suspect this is because its a fairly powerful machine: dedicated graphics, i3 processor, 8gb of RAM, etc etc. Anyway, I can (if I really try) get the battery life down to half an hour, or up to about two hours if I'm watching a film with the screen brightness right down, and all the power saving measures available in use. Internet browsing and things like that get me around 1% = 1 minute, even with the power saving options via Win7 engaged.
For a new-ish laptop, this is below par.
Currently I use it only as a desktop machine, as the limited battery life means its not much use taking it anywhere, as it'll be dead in a couple of hours anyway.
This brings me on to my search for more battery capacity.
I haven't got a problem with carrying a second (or third) battery around with me, but of course that involves choosing which replacement batteries to buy in the first place.
I've had a look on eBay and there's an awful lot of batteries to choose from.
There's some Dell batteries, coming in around £40 for another one of what I have. This would double my battery life, which is quite nice.
However, there are other batteries available for much lower prices, or a similar price but considerably more capacity (usually 6.6Ah, up from 4.4).
So, has anyone else tried these unofficial replacement batteries?
Would appreciate some guidance through the pitfalls here.
TIA
Chris