I for one would beg to differ. My experience with knock-off batteries has been nothing short of atrocious.
I would *never* sell a ThinkPad with a non-OEM battery to anyone, and I sell more ThinkPads in a month than most people get to see in a lifetime. Your ThinkPad - your call. Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Martin N <marti...@bluebottle.com> To: thinkpad <thinkpad@stderr.org> Sent: Fri, Nov 11, 2011 10:49 am Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Official Thinkpad batterys Ok thanks for the information. I think its unanimous that i should pass on these batteries and stick with clone versions. Martin N At 02:47 11/11/2011, you wrote: >No, I don't think it offers any useful indicator whatsoever, and a >new Non-Lenovo battery is a much better choice, usually at a lower >price.. There wa a time when I lost a lot of my investment in those >batteries you describe and 6 weeks to three months later they were >worse than dead. > >RB > >On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Martin N ><<marti...@bluebottle.com?'mailto:marti...@bluebottle.com>marti...@bluebottle.com> wrote: >Ok so you are saying the charge capacity given does not give a good >indication of >battery life? >thanks >Martin N >At 19:39 10/11/2011, you wrote: >Don't waste your time... Life is less than 60 days in my >experience... We buy all new Chinese batteries on eBay, and those >sellers with good numerical ratings are delivering batteries that >last us about a year and a half. >It has been a LONG time since we have had trouble with eBay >batteries..... and we service nearly 400 traveling salesmen with Thinkpads. >Ray Bayles ><canyonla...@gmail.com?'mailto:canyonla...@gmail.com>canyonla...@gmail.com >On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Martin N ><<marti...@bluebottle.com?'mailto:marti...@bluebottle.com><mailto:marti...@bluebottle.com>marti...@bluebottle.com> >wrote: >Hello, >A couple of second hand T60 Thinkpad batteries have come up on ebay >and i was wondering >if anybody on here had an idea roughly what sort of time i could >expect from the second >batteries. >First is described as tested 91% from the IBM battery management software. >Second one is 98% >They are both the 9 cell physically larger battery pack. > > >Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of >MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups > > > > > >-- > > > >I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock. > >. >.. ... .... ........ ...... ........ Heny Youngman Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list Thinkpad@stderr.org http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list Thinkpad@stderr.org http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
