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Different Laptop Batteries, What To Choose

serg — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:38:19 +0000

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 get lost, but better to do a proper choice.

Dell 9 Cell Li-Ion Battery

One of the recommended kinds is Lithium-Ion battery. It excels with better performance and lightweight. The most marvellous thing is that the battery does not lose its potency and strength, and is charged quite rapidly. For the whole mankind Lithium-Ion battery is attractive with its harmlessness to the environment.

The oldest type of battery is Nickel Cadmium. But unlike Lithium-Ion one it has The Dreaded Memory Effect, so time makes the battery exhaustible. But it had always dominated before the world got the better ones.

In everyday techniques like children’s toys, flashlights, handheld radio sets we use Alkaline battery. It is in common use and can be bought everywhere. But we use them rarely in laptops, as they are not rechargeable, and we just simply throw them out after having used.

One more kind is Nickel-Metal Hydride. Primary it was created as an alternative to NiCads. Really it lasts longer but as the NiCad it has the same trouble, it loses potency over time. But to choose the proper battery for your laptop you should consult with your laptop manual. The main thing is to avoid your laptop explosion through improper battery choice. Watch out!

Source: tech.yahoo.com

Battery Life Is To Be Increased

serg — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:44:31 +0000

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 of notebook and e-book makers on a number of different form factors”. The company can enable an increase of 5-10X battery life from one charge to another unlike a standard notebook. An owner will have the possibility to recharge its batteries in the interval of 20-40 hours instead of a few ones as usually.

The poor battery life is a weak moment of the current devices. Even seven hours use, offered by the Sony Vaio TZ and some others, are not enough for the laptop owners of today. So they do hope to get soon increased battery life, and Pixel Qi is one of those to live up their hopes.

Toshiba Slim Battery

Moreover Jepsen talks about their intentions to make their screens cheaper, but unfortunately cannot reveal the secret of what stuff is to be used in these screens, but everyone can find it reasonable that it will have some similarity to that used by the XO.

HP and Dell Laptop Battery Shortages

Laptop Expert — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:36:23 +0000

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 manufacturer – LG Chem.

Dell also admitted that prices for laptop batteries sold separately from a notebook system have gone up because of the shortage. LG Chem, one of the leading makers of batteries for laptops, had a fire in its Ochang plant on March 3. Dell says that it is working with other vendors to obtain batteries in an attempt to stave the shortage and prevent price increases for new notebooks from being passed on to consumers.

Dell spokesman Jess Blackburn told Reuters,

“We sell battery packs. The prices of those battery packs for people ordering extra batteries have gone up.”

However, Blackburn didn’t comment on the amount of the price increase.

Dell isn’t the only PC maker looking at laptop battery shortages; Hewlett Packard is feeling the same pinch. Hewlett-Packard spokesperson Mike Hockey said,

“The full extent of the impact to Hewlett Packard and other OEMs is still being determined. We are aggressively working within the battery cell industry to secure additional supply of battery cells.”

Source: DailyTech.com

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Testing Laptop Batteries And The Reasons For It

Laptop Expert — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:37:41 +0000

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 the best things that you can do before you buy a laptop, and if you are not able to you should test it as soon as you get it. If a laptop has a bad battery that does not mean that you should not get it (because you can just buy a new one). But it’s good to know if you are going to need to get a new one or not.

There are many different ways of testing laptop batteries. If you look around online you will see that many different people test their batteries in many different ways. However, either way you choose to test your battery, you want to have something running. Many people think that they can just turn on the laptop and let it sit there. Then after a hour or so they come back and see if the laptop is still on. This is not testing your laptop battery. You have to have the computer running something, and it helps if it’s using the CD-ROM drive as well. The more things that it has going on it at once will let you see if the computer can hold a charge. After testing the computer you will be able to make a good choice on whether you would like to keep the battery that you have or if you are going to need a new one. Please keep in mind if you buy a new computer you should aways fully charge the battery first before using the computer. Otherwise you could damage the laptop battery.

In case you do not want to look all over the internet for a way to test your laptop batteries, then I will tell you the test that I run on my batteries. What I like to do is get a music CD, and put it into the laptop. Now let the laptop play this CD for about an hour. To really see how good your battery is, make sure that your screen saver will not come up for about an hour as well, and have the music effects playing on the screen. After an hour of playing a music CD your computer should have only lost about 30% of its charge. Now if it has lost more than that, your battery may be going bad. If the computer is powered down when you find it, that means your battery is bad. If your battery is bad, it may be holding a little charge right now, but soon it will no longer hold a charge at all. Then you will have to keep your laptop plugged up to the wall at all times. Then it is really not much better than a desktop.

That is just one of the many test that you can choose to run on your laptop computers. It really does not matter what test you run on it, but you should definitely run a test of some kind. By doing this you are going to know if your laptop is ready for use. It would be bad if you were trying to use it for school or work, and the battery was not good. In the middle of using it, it may cut off. Do not put yourself in one of those kinds of spots. Check your batteries first to make sure that your computer is not going to cut off on you during something important.

Toshiba Recalls More Notebook Batteries

Laptop Expert — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:15:39 +0000

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 $680.

The recall stemmed from three reports outside of the United States of laptop batteries overheating. No injuries were reported, but the CPSC is advising laptop computer owners to run the systems on AC power and send the batteries back to Toshiba for replacements at no charge.

Toshiba in July recalled 10,000 batteries in Toshiba Satellite and Toshiba Tecra laptops. The company reported in June that a Sony laptop battery was responsible for at least two notebooks bursting into flames. The CPSC has listed 16 reports of Sony lithium-ion notebook batteries overheating.

Apple, Dell, Lenovo, Gateway, and Acer America also have issued recalls of the faulty rechargeable batteries. The global effort started last year when power sources used in notebooks from several manufacturers began showing defects and overheating. Sony last year recalled 9.6 million batteries, making it the largest recall ever in the computer industry.

While the recalls haven’t hurt notebook sales, experts have said that even more battery problems could push some buyers to switch brands. A survey of corporate buyers and consumers found 15% would change their buying plans because of the recalls, according to IDC. While far from a majority, the number was high enough to cause a sway in market share, especially in the corporate segment where buyers purchase large numbers of laptops.

Model numbers for the batteries in the latest recall are:

Toshiba PSAA0U, Toshiba PSAA2U, Toshiba PSAA8U, Toshiba PSAA9U, Toshiba PTA70U, and Toshiba PTA71U.

News source: informationweek.com

Toshiba to recall Sony-made li-ion batteries

Laptop Expert — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:34:08 +0000

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 batteries last year.

A Toshiba spokesman said the recall would affect 10 different notebook models sold worldwide. He said the company knew of three separate incidents where the laptop battery packs had overheated and damaged notebooks, and all three came from the lot in question.

A Sony spokesman said all of the batteries involved had come from the same lot the company made in December 2005, and so the companies had decided to recall all batteries from that lot.

He said Sony was still investigating the cause of the problem, but that it was limited to that specific lot.

Both companies expect the financial impact from the recall to be minimal

News source: MarketWatch.com

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