It seems that the battery on my Thinkpad L420 is getting short on life.
Searching for replacements has me finding prices from $15 (NewEgg!) on up
to over $60.  The present battery is a Lenovo with a red "55" on it.  It is
6 cells, has two labels: one says 5.2Ah, the other says 4.68Ah.  The latter
has a PSE designation with some Chinese characters under it.  I suspect the
PSE is a standard of some type.

There are 9 cell batteries offered along with the 6 cell ones.

But the question remains, how do I choose from the myriad of batteries
offered?  Lenovo no longer sells them, likely because their price is out of
sight.

A related issue is how to get my laptop to report reliable information
about the time remaining?  It seems to be quite optimistic.  I am trying to
take the battery down to <20% a few times then recharging to see if that
restores the calibration, but so far that has not improved things much.

Thanks for your sage advice.

-Denis
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