How To Replace Your Laptop Battery

PinkyStinky said: Your laptop battery is influenced by many factors, including age, environmental conditions and frequency of use. If the your laptop battery is losing its charge faster than it used to, the battery is probably dying and you will need to replace the laptop battery.  Each laptop battery has a finite number of cycles that it [...] Read more »

Laptop Battery Buying Guide

Replacement laptop batteries and OEM laptop batteries provide the electrical energy that powers your laptop or notebook computer. Laptop battery use a combination of cells that are electrochemically active and provide an electromotive force by the movement of electrons from one battery terminal to the other. NiCad batteries are one of the oldest technologies used for [...] Read more »

Tips to Maximize Your Replacement Laptop Battery?

A new laptop battery comes supplied in a discharged condition and requires charging before use. Refer to your user's manual for the charging instrucitons and be aware that the laptop battery will achieve its full charging capacity after a couple of charging cycles. An important thing to practice to maintain for your NiCad laptop replacement [...] Read more »

Are Replacement Laptop Batteries as Good as Originals?

BatteryGuy says: If you need to keep your laptop computer plugged in to its AC adapter to keep your laptop running, it probably means that your laptop's battery is dying. If that's the case, then it's time for you to start looking for a replacement laptop battery. The error that most people make is thinking [...] Read more »

New Laptop Battery Charging

pearlart says: Sometimes new laptop batteries may behave erratically until they have been charged or discharged after several cycles. New laptop batteries are shipped out to customer in a discharged condition or with very low capacity and must be drained before use. I suggest at least a twelve hour charge but first refer to the owner's manual [...] Read more »

About External Laptop Batteries

External laptop battery packs, also known as universal laptop batteries, are great when you need to power your laptop for an extended period of time and you will not be able to charge your computer's internal battery or power it on AC via the charger itself. This is especially true for the professional that logs his [...] Read more »

Replacement Laptop Batteries Shopping Experience

Buying a cheap replacement battery for a Dell Inspiron The basis of this article derived from the simple fact that I needed to find a replacement laptop battery for my wife's Dell Inspiron 1501. It had been operating for increasingly shorter periods of time while on battery power and the battery utility program began displaying [...] Read more »