Well i will be travelling with a spare but i take your point about reliability,
I bought the t60 second hand and paying so close to the price
of a laptop for a new battery too much of a Mickey take.
If i had bought this t60 new I would be more inclined to buy a official
battery but its second hand and 6 years old.
Its a risk as you have mentioned but my x30 battery has been fine
from a third party manufactured by Sanyo according to the battery
information utility.
Shame none of the ebayers or sellers on amazon bother to mention
if its a Sanyo or not as I would be straight in with the purchase.
Martin N
At 19:45 10/10/2011, you wrote:
With batteries, you need to take a host of things into consideration. The
Lenovo battery is far less likely to crap out on you during a presentation
or some other critical time when you really really don't want it to die.
I should have followed up on this, but several years ago I didn't help a
friend as much as I should have, getting a new battery for his Mac laptop.
About a week after getting it, it's sitting at a coffee shop and he and his
wife smelled something odd. It was the battery getting HOT. So hot that
is made a mark on the table, and caused minor damage to the battery
compartment on the Mac.
I got some replacement battery packs for some hand held ham radios,
and was somewhat horrified to see how they were constructed. They
didn't last long, either.
I'm sure there are places which have fairly high quality batteries,
somewhere. I haven't found them and I'm tired of wasting money.
So it's more than value for money, I think.
--STeve Andre'
On 10/10/11 14:31, Martin N wrote:
I expect the Lenovo batteries are better but not 4x better than
these replacements at a quarter of the price.
Value for money matters more than absolute performance to me
I do have a laptop sleeve which should be adequate inside a day sack
Martin N
At 17:21 10/10/2011, you wrote:
Aftermarket batteries are a bit of a crap shoot. I had good luck
with a T23 battery from dealextreme.com (who ship free - but
slowly! - to the UK), but their T60 batteries might be from a
different source. Official Lenovo batteries are generally far
superior for longevity, fit, and likelihood of actually meeting
their charge rating.
You should carry your thinkpad in some sort of padded case to
protect it from getting knocked about, no matter what size battery you get.
DR
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From: "Martin N" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 5:53 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [Thinkpad] Battery for the T60 Thinkpad
Lo,
I am looking for a battery for the T60 so I can take it to
college and swap the battery during
a break since the included battery last 2hrs.
The course is 3 hours in an evening.
I do not want the 9 cell battery as it sticks out and since i am
travelling on public transport
it would get knocked about a little.
But apart from that i cannot really see how to distinguish
between the tens of sellers on
ebay. I will buying a clone battery as no one seems to be selling
an official Lenovo cell and
I have heard they are expensive anyhow.
Any tips before i take pot luck ?
I am in the uk.
Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of
MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups
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