Need a new Laptop Battery

[terminator881]

Laptop battery of my 5 year old laptop is dying...Charging is stuck at 25%....called a few Sony service centers and they're quoting 7k-9k for a battery.

Do original batteries really cost that much?? What are my options?

 

[Sushubh]

yup. Dell quoted 15K few years ago for my inspiron. i ended up buying a third party battery which well did not work out well. money spent was wasted. you can experiment with third party batteries and hope for the best.

 

[terminator881]

How much did you pay for the third party battery and how long did it last? And what was the backup time?

 

[xyx2000]

5 year old laptop wont be worth 9k now

 

[Sushubh]

battery worked fine. life was also fine. the problem was that whenever i did anything resource intensive, the laptop just restarted. which meant that the power supply from the battery was not optimal for the requirement of the laptop so i stopped using it. your other alternative is to stop using the laptop as a laptop. connect it to a power source permanently backed by a ups/inverter so it does not have to switch over to the internal battery at all.

 

[arafat]

My inspiron battery died as well . They quoted 7k at service centre... thinking to buy from Amazon as they have approx 3k price .. Dont need additional backup... just need 20-25mins backup as no major power cut at my place

 

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