On Mon, 17 May 2010 11:01:08 +0100, Jon Green wrote:

On 17/05/2010 10:33, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In articleNcydnczlOfPtnGzWnZ2dnUVZ8sqdnZ2d@brightvie w.co.uk,
Jon wrote:
It's worth checking the capacities of both the manufacturer's own part
and the third party replacement. I was looking at one for my laptop:
4400mAH as quoted. When I checked the original part, that was 5800mAH.
No sale...

Surely that depends on the price? Two 4400mAH batteries for the cost of
one 5800mAH for example could be worth having if everything else is
equal.

Well, I don't want to carry around two spare batteries rather than one,
I don't want my laptop to run out of juice early, and the fact that the
"replacement" part has a markedly lower capacity speaks volumes of the
quality of the cells it contains. I value my laptop enough that I don't
want to fire an extinguisher at it!

Jon

If you're buying cheap ones then that's less likely with the lower
capacity ones.
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Duncan Wood