But it's still an old laptop...
On 3/26/2020 6:06 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Hey, the battery was only $70.
*From:*AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Nate Burke
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Are you married to that laptop? Just get a whole new machine.
https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Display-Graphics-Keyboard-A515-43-R19L/dp/B07RF1XD36
I only look for things with a wired Ethernet port. Dongles drive me
crazy.
On 3/26/2020 5:50 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
I’m just afraid that by 2022 they won’t be available anymore. Or
I guess if they are, maybe they will have been sitting in an
Amazon warehouse for 2 years?
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<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Steve Jones
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*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT - will spare laptop battery go bad in
storage?
Hit or miss on these. They're so cheap anymore on old laptops, if
it's bad I just get another, I don't know how they store them but
its 50 50 on good or dead
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020, 5:40 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com
<mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> wrote:
I have a 4 year old Dell XPS 15 and I just replaced the Li-ion
battery for the second time. I guess that’s not shocking.
But Dell wasn’t even selling replacement batteries the first
time. I did get a free one from them because they had a
problem with the original batteries swelling. That
replacement didn’t swell, but the runtime had decreased
dramatically.
The no-name replacement (bought from Amazon) fit perfectly,
and looked just like the Dell battery except for a sticker
that I’m pretty sure covers the Dell name. It’s a pretty nice
laptop and I can’t guarantee I’ll be ready to retire it 2
years from now when this battery will probably need replacing.
Amazon still has them in stock, should I order another one?
Or is putting a spare battery on the shelf stupid, will it
just gradually discharge and go bad? It’s not very difficult
to change the battery, would it help to swap batteries every 6
months or something? I actually saw something on the Internet
that Li-ion batteries should be stored partially not fully
charged. And of course they can’t put anything on the
Internet unless it’s true.
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