Where to buy a new battery for laptop?

top_drawer_2

hi,

I havent had a battery for months and months as it stopped charging. I have a Dell 1501 Inspiron laptop and I am now looking to buy another as I hate that I have to disconnect everytime I want to move. I have priced them up through Dell themselves and they said £80, a computer shop locally stated £50 both seem really expensive. Can anyone recommend somewhere to buy a new battery, I'm worried about using Ebay for this type of thing as I cant afford for it to stop working in 6 months.

Thanks

Jen

John_Gray

Laptop batteries are expensive and don't last long. That's the way it is, I'm afraid. There are techniques (Googleable!) for prolonging their active life, but they will die in a year or two.

I would suspect that most laptops are actually always connected to the mains...