RE: [701] Battery: What's that chip doing inside there?

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From: letoured_at_together.net
Date: Sat Mar 31 2001 - 10:00:07 EST


In <IMELKCNIONCOIOBFACICOENKDBAA.Captjhem_at_waterw.com>, on 03/31/01
   at 08:55 AM, "James H. E. Maugham" <Captjhem_at_waterw.com> said:

>letoured_at_together.net [mailto:letoured_at_together.net] wrote:

>> If IBM replaces a battery under warrenty, you do not get a new one.
>> You get one they have somehow reconditioned which they guarantee for
>> 90 days -- and that is just about 15 days before they die. -- So IBM
>> has obviously found a way to extend battery life for the period needed
>> to keep them from giving users a brand new battery.

>That has not been my experience with the two TP600 batteries that IBM
>replaced for me under the "recall" early last year.

>Both of the replacements I received appeared to be new (packaged the
>same as additional batteries I've purchased) and came with 1 year
>warranty certificates.

Then you received special treatment. I got a TP600 battery replacement
that was good for about 110 days with a 980 day warranty that they did
not tell me about until I called with the problem. -- Which is how I
found out about the 90 day warranty.

Maybe I ought to file a law suit in small claims and subpoena every
document IBM has on batteries <evil, evil grin>. For the $25 filing
fee, it would be really poetic justice to get all of their internal
information on batteries and share it.

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