Sony laptop battery

arsenalboy

I purchased a Sony laptop from a Sony Centre 22 months ago. A fully charged battery now lasts less than 20 minutes.
Do I just swallow it and buy a new battery or do I have grounds to go back to the Sony Centre?

RandyRabbit

Hi, pretty much all batteries are alike. I've had a few laptops from Dell and I always buy the 4 year extended warranty (about an extra £148) but it doesn't cover batteries. If my HDD or DVD writer fails then a man replaces it the very next day but batteries are specifically excluded from the warranty.

I'm guessing that Sony will have it in their T+C's somewhere too that batteries aren't covered. The best thing to do is buy a new one but dont buy a genuine Sony one as the compatible ones on Ebay are about a quarter of the price and will last you another couple of years.

scottishblondie

Batteries are considered "consumable", so generally speaking are not included in warranties etc. But if you don't ask you don't get. Might as well try.

RosieBee_2

Hello,

As said above you might as well try and ask. But usually laptop batteries tend not to last long. Ive had one for about a year now and its gone down from 6 hours full charge to 3 hours. So it's just general use that makes a laptop battery lose it charge power.

Have a look at this in the mean time for ways to make a laptop battery last longer http://www.friedbeef.com/top-15-ways-to-extend-your-laptop-battery-life/

Hope this helps

cit_k

I would be disgusted if I had a genuine laptop battery that lasted less than a couple of year.

Not much I would be able to do about it though, as they are consumable items, and not covered by a decent warranty usually.

But I still would complain, and go back to the store to make a big stink over the crappy product, preferably in front of as many other customers as possible.

I have thinkpad batteries over a decade old that are still going strong, and dell batteries that also are several years old, and still lasting a couple of hours.

20 minutes life left, after less than 2 yearyear, is bad, unless your running it on battery a heck of a lot (and letting it drain completely??)