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3 Things You Ought To Know About Laptop Battery Replacements

3 Things You Ought To Know About Laptop Battery Replacements

Laptop batteries are expensive. Indeed, if you’ve ever priced a replacement, you’ve probably suffe-red a bad case of sticker shock. Depending on the model, new power packs often sell for as much as $100, $125, even $150! That can be a tough pill to swallow.

Whether you’re already in the market for a replace-ment battery or just concerned about the inevitable day when you will be, here are three things you should know:

1. Batteries typically go south after 1-2 years. This varies depending on your usage, of course, but the average laptop battery is good for around 400 re-charges (a.k.a. cycles). After that, it starts to lose its

capacity to hold a charge. That’s why the battery that once gave you, say, 3-4 hours’ worth of runtime now peters out after just 1-2 hours. And after a few years, you might be lucky to get an even an hour.

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2. You can make your current battery last lon-ger. If you use your laptop as your primary desktop PC, you may be wasting battery cycles by leaving it plugged in all the time. The solution: pop the battery out until you actually need to go somewhere with your laptop. As long as the latter is plugged into an AC outlet, it doesn’t actually need the battery. Trust me on this: I’ve seen fairly new batteries that could barely last half an hour, even though the laptop rarely went anywhere. When in doubt, pop it out.

3. There are attractive third-par-ty alternatives. When you do

end up needing a replacement battery, you don’t

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3 Things You Ought To Know About Laptop Battery Replacements

necessarily have to buy one from the laptop manu-facturer–paying top dollar in the process. Google the laptop make/model and “battery” to see if there are less-expensive third-party options. If your system is a popular model, there almost certainly will be. Also, be sure to check out Dr. Battery’s Advanced Pro Series. These replacement batteries–available for a huge range of laptop models–promise 800 recharge cycles (meaning they should last twice as long as your current battery) and come with a two-year warranty. Plus, they’re priced fairly competitively at $88 and up.

By the way, you should always, always, always recycle old laptop batteries. Stores like Best Buy, Lowe’s, and Staples have bins or kiosks where you can drop them off.

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