Replacement Laptop Battery - Best Replacement Laptop Batteries

Whether you are looking for a replacement laptop battery for your Dell laptop, Hp Laptop, Compaq laptop, Apple laptop, Toshiba laptop, Lenovo laptop or Sony laptop, read this replacement laptop battery guide for laptop owners who are willing to replace their laptop battery.

Laptop batteries are quite expensive. In fact they are one of the most expensive hardware parts in your laptop. These batteries are the UPS of a laptop. A good battery, once charged or recharged can give several hours of power supply to the laptop so that your work doesn’t get interrupted when the power goes off or when you are on the move where there is no power supply. The laptop gets almost useless without a battery. The better the battery, the more it will last without frequent recharge. This makes it very important to choose the best available laptop battery when you need to replace it.

There are mainly 3 types of laptop batteries:

1) Li+ or Lithium-ion laptop batteriesare most common among laptop users.

2) NiMH or Nickel Metal-Hydride laptop batteries are cheaper as compared to their counterparts.

3) NiCad or Nickel Cadmium laptop batteries are not reliable and trusted.

As I stated above, the laptop battery is one of the most expensive hardware part in any laptop and can cost anywhere from $100 to$ 200. Like any other battery, laptop batteries too have a limited lifespan. However, you can increase the life of a battery by following some of the basic rules. Most of these rules are available in your laptop manual. When it comes to replace the battery of your laptop computer, it is recommended to buy and use only the recommended battery or replacement battery of the same company or brand. Few people get tempted to save some money and buy a replacement from a company other than the original make of the laptop computer. They do this at the cost of the life of the laptop itself.

One of my friends had to replace the battery of his Toshiba laptop. He was able to buy a cheaper battery and saved some money. After few months, the battery caught fire. He lost more than what he saved in buying the cheaper laptop battery.

Also there are headlines of battery recalls by various laptop manufacturers due to some or the other technical problem.

If you want to know details of your battery, then do following:

1) If you are running Windows XP in your laptop computer and want to know details about your battery, then just go to the Control Panel and open the Power Options → Click on the Power Meter → Click on the battery icon. This will show you the make of the battery.

2) If you are using a ThinkPad with Windows XP, then do following to see your battery details → Start → Programs → ThinkVantage → Now you can see information about the battery.

There are other software available that shows more details about your laptop battery.