On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:22:46 +0100, Klistvud wrote: > Howdie, fellow Debianites! > > Just today I received the spare battery I had ordered from an online > store; the old one had died on me -- as batteries are likely to do, > eventually. It's an original HP spare battery for my HP Compaq 6715b and > it cost just under 84€ with shipping and all. Now, the price represents > roughly 14% of the retail price of the laptop (599€ when bought a couple > of years ago).
If it's an original piece, I find the prize quite good :-) But the final prize also depends on other "external" factors": - The laptop model: business lines usually are a bit expensive and so are their batteries. - Model age: older laptops (>3 years) suffer for higher prizes (and sometimes even it's difficult to order an original battery from manufacturers). > I'm wondering what's the battery/laptop price index for other laptops > out there? Is there any brand of laptops which comes with reasonably > priced batteries (say, costing substantially less than 10% of the total > laptop price)? Would you ever buy a car -- or even a mobile phone -- > having a battery that cost 14% of the entire car/phone retail price? > Anybody care to share? Toshiba batteries tend to be more expensive (around 75/85€ -vat and delivery expenses *not included*- in Spain). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
