The package says: Product assembled and designed in the USA. Nothing is written on the battery regarding its origin.
As far as I can say without having done formal tests, it works as the original IBM battery and I've encountered no incompatibility.
Jean-Christian
> 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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