Replacing laptop battery [Archive] - REVscene Automotive Forum

Trinity

01-08-2009, 08:03 AM

Is it easy to do?

Basically, I want to go from a 3 cell to a 6 cell battery on a netbook. Would it be better to get a pro to do this?

SkinnyPupp

01-08-2009, 08:15 AM

No, all you have to do is buy the right battery, and pop it on. Unless you have one of those new MacBooks that have an integrated battery, and will become completely useless after 2 years.

Trinity

01-08-2009, 08:34 AM

Ooh that sounds easy enough.

Soundy

01-08-2009, 08:41 AM

Yeah, SOUNDS easy... but you're a girl... ;)

(kidding! it actually is really easy on 99.99% of laptops)

Trinity

01-08-2009, 09:00 AM

Yeah, SOUNDS easy... but you're a girl... ;)

(kidding! it actually is really easy on 99.99% of laptops) I'm a girl who builds her own computers :p

SkinnyPupp

01-08-2009, 09:42 AM

What's your laptop model?

.Renn.Sport

01-08-2009, 09:46 AM

I'm a girl who builds her own computers :p

unless you own a macbook air or the new macbook pro 17"

there is no way you wouldnt know how to take a battery from a laptop

lilaznviper

01-08-2009, 11:34 AM

I'm a girl who builds her own computers :p

now if more girls who do that and take classes like that , it would be awesome

Trinity

01-08-2009, 12:19 PM

What's your laptop model? Don't have it yet. Was just wondering if it was easy.

now if more girls who do that and take classes like that , it would be awesome I didn't take a class. I just started doing it.

Have not shorted out any motherboards to date! Or killed any CPUs. Or anything like that.

camshaft

01-12-2009, 01:43 PM

depending on how handy you are...
http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/479447/laptop_battery_hack_dont_buy_a_new_one.swf

Soundy

01-12-2009, 02:10 PM

Don't have it yet. Was just wondering if it was easy.

Wouldn't the easiest thing be to simply order it WITH the high-capacity battery? Probably save money too, as you're not buying the smaller original battery...

Iceman_2K

01-12-2009, 02:15 PM

not every laptop has a higher capacity battery to it.

Soundy

01-12-2009, 02:31 PM

Well if she's asking about swapping it herself, there must be one available, no? Either that, or if she hasn't bought the laptop yet, she might want to consider one that's available to be ordered WITH the better battery.

lilaznviper

01-12-2009, 03:19 PM

i do know that HP laptops do come with 12 cell batteries

Trinity

01-12-2009, 03:49 PM

Wouldn't the easiest thing be to simply order it WITH the high-capacity battery? Probably save money too, as you're not buying the smaller original battery... Yeah, that'd be the easiest thing to do if I were y'know, ordering it.

I'm not ordering it. It's being given to me.

Soundy

01-12-2009, 04:14 PM

Oh, well, can't complain about the price then :)

Trinity

01-12-2009, 04:59 PM

Oh, well, can't complain about the price then :) Well duh! :D

Psykopathik

01-15-2009, 07:44 AM

there is always the option of an external battery that plugs into the AC port of your laptop. a universal power supply as it were.

Trinity

01-15-2009, 12:52 PM

there is always the option of an external battery that plugs into the AC port of your laptop. a universal power supply as it were. Bleh, I already have textbooks I'm going to have to lug around, I don't want MORE junk!