This isn't an issue of the battery running low, which all batteries do, as you mentioned - it has completely failed. It just stopped charging one day, with absolutely no warning. I've also had various other issues with Lenovo, including the screen completely failing on me about 9 months after purchase, and they took about 3 weeks to fix it, and did a somewhat shoddy job, too.
i am hearing so many complaints about Lenovo laptops these days. which i find odd, because i could have sworn they were THE laptop that everyone was talking about.
relatedly, i need to replace my HP battery (had the laptop for about a year and made the stupid mistake of leaving the battery in when running on AC). the replacement of what i have is 130, but the battery never really had great life to begin with. am trying to decide if it's worth the extra 20 bucks to get the extended-life, 12-cell one.
all i know is that HP batteries tend to suck, and the laptops are power-drainers.
I dunno, what you describe sounds like my last IBM thinkpad experience-- failing screen, failing battery that appears to discharge even when plugged in, etc.
I don't know anyone that does make good laptops these days. I managed to get Lenovo to replace a battery for free at one point. But it was inside the 1 year warranty period for the battery.
This happened to mine, new battery doesn't help it at all. I've heard theories that it's Vista's fault (fucking up the APCI) (but how does it not charge when powered-down?) (I haven't put in a linux livecd to verify), but the probable cause is mobo failure or just shoddy connections somewhere.
I think it's out of warranty... I'm keeping it going as a not-very-mobile laptop; the rest of it is fine and it's a pretty nice machine. Definitely pretty fucking lame though.
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Don't buy HP either.
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relatedly, i need to replace my HP battery (had the laptop for about a year and made the stupid mistake of leaving the battery in when running on AC). the replacement of what i have is 130, but the battery never really had great life to begin with. am trying to decide if it's worth the extra 20 bucks to get the extended-life, 12-cell one.
all i know is that HP batteries tend to suck, and the laptops are power-drainers.
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IBM made great laptops... in the mid 90s.
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This happened to mine, new battery doesn't help it at all. I've heard theories that it's Vista's fault (fucking up the APCI) (but how does it not charge when powered-down?) (I haven't put in a linux livecd to verify), but the probable cause is mobo failure or just shoddy connections somewhere.
I think it's out of warranty... I'm keeping it going as a not-very-mobile laptop; the rest of it is fine and it's a pretty nice machine. Definitely pretty fucking lame though.
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