From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 05:39:53 EDT
On Mon, 06 May 2002 11:31:48 -0700, Steve Carter wrote:
>
>A few months ago, I bought a new 600E battery from "Li-ion King"
>on Ebay. He appears to be a regular, volume seller with a pipeline
>to fresh IBM batteries, which he sells at or below "street" prices.
>
>Mine was of new manufacture and the latest part number. I believe that
>the latest part numbers do longer have the "rapid drop-off" problem
>you mention. Only a few ever did, and that was some time ago.
>
>With Li-Ion batteries, it is critically important to buy new stock,
>freshly manufactured. So, chose a high-volume seller so his stock
>is always fresh. Then, maybe (with only a little luck), you'll never
>have to test the IBM warranty.
>
Although I've found in general that IBM batteries tend to be flaky at best.
I think the best luck I've had was with batteries for my old 760ED (and I have
a client who has a 760E, and the batteries work great even after sitting in the machine
for at least a year).
Wosrt batteries are all the 355/360 series, the 701 series (iffy and intermittent), the 300 series,
and a few others, but the 360 has got to be the absolute worst (when they do work, you get
maybe 45 minutes).
Paul
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