Re: [Thinkpad] TP 600E battery

Did APC make it or just import it from China?
In any case it would still have to meet the same specs
as an original IBM battery. I guess they could use
better cells inside that don't fail so soon though.

--- Jean-Christian Chevalier <listh@jcchevalier.com>
wrote:
> 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

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Received on Tue May 6 00:47:43 2003