What is the average life time of a laptop battery?
Tom Achilles asked:
I got a Dell Inspiron 630M Laptop last April. Mine is a 9-cell battery one. Initially I got about 4 - 6 Hrs of backup time, but now it doesn’t last more than 1 1/2 Hrs.
Is that the expected behavior? Or Should I go for replacement
as Dell offered one year warranty for that battery?
Do they replace this sort of battery for free, under warranty scheme?
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I got a Dell Inspiron 630M Laptop last April. Mine is a 9-cell battery one. Initially I got about 4 - 6 Hrs of backup time, but now it doesn’t last more than 1 1/2 Hrs.
Is that the expected behavior? Or Should I go for replacement
as Dell offered one year warranty for that battery?
Do they replace this sort of battery for free, under warranty scheme?
January 16th, 2009 at 2:35 am
your lucky my laptop is amontth old i get about an hour out of it on the power saver setting
January 17th, 2009 at 5:23 am
300 - 600 cycles.
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Just found this link, probably has much better info.
January 19th, 2009 at 8:15 am
Two days after the warranty expires, so does the battery.
January 19th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Well… I’m just speaking from experience. I’ve got a Samsung Laptop some months ago and it says it has 3 hours of battery life. But it turns out that it has only 2 hours or so of battery life. And my battery life doesn’t decrease.
So i suggest you go down to Dell, make a fuss there and request for another battery as long as you has the warranty.
I’ve got a friend who works in such electrical appliances store, and she told me that it is certainly worth making a fuss about these kind of things, and the fuss would get you some great offer, in most of the cases.