Different Laptop Batteries, What To Choose

Posted on December 15th, 2008 in Battery News | No Comments »

Battery is a thing which makes your laptop to be on the way, if you have thought about that. Some questions are sure to arise about the battery. Each laptop user is eager to know what battery is better to buy to take the most benefit from it. In the array of batteries we might [...]

Battery Life Is To Be Increased

Posted on December 3rd, 2008 in Battery Tips | No Comments »

A department of OLPC project, making the screens for XO machine, called Pixel Qi, plans to furnish laptops with battery which lives can last for 20-40 hours. Mary Lou Jepsen from Pixel Qi believes that this innovation will be introduced in the first half of the next year.

Jepsen says: “We are working with a number [...]

HP and Dell Laptop Battery Shortages

Posted on April 3rd, 2008 in Battery News | 4 Comments »

With the battery being such an integral component of a notebook computer, the cost of the laptop battery can have a noticeable effect on the cost of the entire notebook.

Reuters reports that Dell announced this week that there was a shortage of laptop batteries because in part of a fire at a major laptop battery [...]

Testing Laptop Batteries And The Reasons For It

Posted on February 28th, 2008 in Battery Tips | 7 Comments »

There are many ways to go about buying laptops now-a-days. Pretty much what this means is that many different people buy used laptops. Whenever you go to buy a used laptop, one of the main things that you are going to worry about is the quality of the battery. Testing laptop batteries is one of [...]

Toshiba Recalls More Notebook Batteries

Posted on August 19th, 2007 in Battery News, Battery Recalls | 2 Comments »

Toshiba has issued its second recall in a month of Sony laptop batteries that could overheat and burst into flames.
The latest recall, announced Thursday by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, affects about 1,400 notebooks. The models include the Toshiba Satellite A100 and A105, and the Toshiba Tecra A7, which sell for as little as [...]

Toshiba to recall Sony-made li-ion batteries

Posted on July 19th, 2007 in Battery News, Battery Recalls | No Comments »

Toshiba said Thursday it will recall lithium-ion notebook battery packs made by Sony Corp.
Up to 5,100 battery packs are defective, but the recall will include 10,000 laptop batteries, as that is the size of the manufacturing lot involved, spokesmen from the companies said.
The recall is unrelated to the much bigger recall of Sony-made li-ion [...]