Re: [Thinkpad] TP 600E battery

I chose this brand because:
- I had had already 4 defective IBM batteries, included 2 replaced by IBM because they were defective, and they didn't want to replace them again. So I was not going to buy a new one which was probably going to be defective again. At the rate they were going defective, I was going to need to buy 2 batteries a year!
- APC is specialized in UPS so I thought that they would make good batteries, but this was not based on any test, just a thought. I also thought that if they are making batteries for a lot of different notebooks, as they do, they would better do good products if they want to survive in this area.
- I asked on this list if somebody had already tried them, regarding compatibility and so on. I got one answer, for another ThinkPad model, and the person was satisfied. The battery was fully compatible.
- Furthermore the APC was cheaper here than the IBM. So I tried it.

Jean-Christian

> How did you come to choose the APC brand?
>
> I just purchased a clone battery off Ebay in addition to my IBM brand drive
> bay as the old main battery was down to minutes.....so far so good but its
> only been about a month. I chose based on price & shipping plus power
> seller w/huge numbers of pos. feedback...and guessed.
>
> I was also tempted by the sales pitch citing the latest number of IBM brand
> batteries. I couldn't find any specific battery testing observations beyond
> the talk of the possibility of charger -or battery flaws. Besides, testing
> would require establishing some protocols...and on and on....
>
> Bryan

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Received on Tue May 6 00:20:13 2003