Thanks for stopping by Computer Laptop Batteries.  You must have questions having to do with your laptop battery, but you can stop right here!  We’d love to help you with all of your battery related needs and supplies.  We’ve collected in one place all of the knowledge you can use to answer the questions running through your mind right about now:

1. Are you sure I can’t fix my old battery?
2. What are the different types of batteries out there?
3. Do I need a part number from the battery, or can I just use the laptop model number?
4. Where can I recycle my dead battery?
5. Am I going to have to purchase a new battery every year or so?

First, let’s start with the most important question…There’s no way to fix my old battery?  This is probably the easiest answer to find out.  Charge the cell to 100%, then operate on battery power and see how soon it is before your computer turns off.  Be sure that you are running with all programs off and your power settings optimized before doing so because if you’re running too many different programs and accessories while on battery power, it will only deplete the charge that much faster.  If your battery doesn’t last more than 45 minutes to an hour and a half, it’s probably time to get a new one.

Picking a Battery

There are two kinds of batteries on the market for laptops, Ni-Cad and Lithium Ion.  Nickel Cadmium batteries are the original technology and as such are not perfect, as they inevitably suffer from a problem called power memory.  So, every time you don’t run the battery down before recharging, you will decrease the batteries future ability to hold the amount of power it was able to previously.  Eventually this issue brings you to where you are now, which is here, sitting with a battery that doesn’t work.

The other kind of battery, the Lithium Ion, does not have this problem, and so will last a bit longer during their life.  They are, however, more expensive.  What you have to do is determine how often you run your laptop on battery power to decide which product is perfect for you.

Purchasing a New Battery

Once you’ve gauged your need for a new battery, follow these easy steps to buy a new one.  First, turn on your laptop and go to the Control Panel.  Click Power Options, select the Power Meter tab and click on the battery icon.  The model number given there will let you know what type of battery to obtain.

Who will take my old battery?

As with all batteries, you cannot toss them in the trash with the rest of the garbage, as it’s terrible for the environment.  What you’ll have to do is seal it up and drop it off at your local BestBuy or other location that takes old batteries.   To find one, click here.

We hope that found what you were looking for, and for some extra ideas, please be sure to view the below video from Best Buy’s Geek Squad on getting the most from your laptop battery.

If you’re still looking for more information about your laptop computer please click through to Laptop Review, Cnet, and PC World for more information.  Also, some people don’t like to use after-market products in laptop, so we’ve also included links to Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) sites like Dell, IBM, Sony and Lenovo.

We hope the information contained in this page has been helpful to you.  Please be sure to leave your comments on the site, and we’ll be sure to send you a little commentluv!

You’ve had to buy a new battery for your laptop.  Want to learn how to keep this battery until your computer is finally obsolete?  We’ve gathered a few ideas how to lengthen the life of your battery.

1. When you need to charge the battery, be sure it charges it until the battery is at 100%.  If you don’t make it to 100%, you diminish some of the storage capacity of the battery.  In the long run, this will shrink the power capacity of the battery and will ultimately cause you to be where you are now buying a new battery.
2. Utilize the Power Management Tools on the Control Panel.  By updating the Control Panel and changing things like the amount of time before the laptop goes into sleep mode, or turning off the screen saver and other non-essential background programs, you can save your battery power for when it counts.
3. You may not be aware of this, but when you install a program, oftentimes hidden software protocols will load in the background on startup to do things like find updates, then continue running.  While these programs may not be an issue when you’re on a/c power, when you’re running on stored power they can cause additional problems that you don’t need.  So, when running off the grid, be sure and right click on the icons in your start bar and turn as much as possible off.  Even turn off your wireless internet if you’re not shopping!
4. Batteries are like big jugs of water sitting around in the sun.  If you don’t get rid of all of the water occasionally, the water inside starts evaporating and leaving behind yucky stuff that, if you’re not careful, will make that jug unsanitary after a while.  What you should do is, every month or so, drain all of the power of your battery by unplugging it from your surge protector and disabling all the power saving settings we just had you set up and let the battery empty itself.  Then, without starting your operating system, plug the computer back into the surge protector and leave it to charge overnight.  Depleting the battery allows it to clear the residual memory and that will make it more able to keep a charge in the long run.
5. All of us laptop owners are guilty of this one, which is most assuredly why the battery manufacturers are doing just fine.  Did you know that you’re supposed to pull the battery out when you’re not utilizing it? Laptop manufacturers must hide that little bit of information in the fine print at the back of the manual (as if I actually read the manual!), because I, for one, had no idea.  Be sure when you  follow their recommendations to put it in a cool dry place.
6. Finally, laptops and their batteries are much like us – they don’t react well if they overheat.  So, if you’re lying by the pool while surfing the net, be sure your laptop is out of direct sunlight and, if you’re dripping in the heat, then your laptop most certainly isn’t in good shape, either, and you should probably resume your surfing inside with the air conditioning.

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