Laptop replacement battery

FirstTimer4Me

Hello,

I'm not very good with technology hoping someone better than me can assist

I need a replacement battery for my laptop, Advent Roma 1000 anyone have suggestions for a compatible one, making it cheaper in comparison to an original (save money)

mluton

We use https://www.duracelldirect.co.uk for batteries for our end users replacements. HTH

EveryWhere

FirstTimer4Me wrote: »

Hello,

I'm not very good with technology hoping someone better than me can assist

I need a replacement battery for my laptop, Advent Roma 1000 anyone have suggestions for a compatible one, making it cheaper in comparison to an original (save money)

Quite the poor Central Processing Unit in that laptop.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+900+%40+2.20GHz&id=665
It must be painfully slow.
You can mitigate that pain by swapping the equally slow magnetic spinning hard drive within, for a much faster, solid state version.

It is easy to swap to a solid state drive, as there is a dedicated hatch on the underside of the laptop. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MyMemory-Boost-Internal-SSD-Hard-Drive-2-5-SATA-III-120GB-560MB-s-New-UK/372725272585


You will pay at least £30 for a battery for the thing. I would not bother with a new battery. You still won't get much battery time from it.
Here is an example: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/14-8v-2-2Ah-Battery-For-Advent-140-4S2200-M1A2-140-4S2200-G1L3-140-4S2200-C1L3-/252093133263

FirstTimer4Me

Hi EW

Thank you, I really don't have any knowledge about computers, so, at the moment, I only use the laptop with the charger plugged in & connected to the mains, the battery doesn't seem to charge tho.

If follow your advice below, would I not need a battery?

How simple is it to replace the Memory-Boost-Internal-SSD

I could buy a replacement battery just to keep it simple for me.

EveryWhere wrote: »

You can mitigate that pain by swapping the equally slow magnetic spinning hard drive within, for a much faster, solid state version.

It is easy to swap to a solid state drive, as there is a dedicated hatch on the underside of the laptop. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MyMemory-Boost-Internal-SSD-Hard-Drive-2-5-SATA-III-120GB-560MB-s-New-UK/372725272585

EveryWhere

FirstTimer4Me wrote: »

Hi EW

Thank you, I really don't have any knowledge about computers, so, at the moment, I only use the laptop with the charger plugged in & connected to the mains, the battery doesn't seem to charge tho.

If follow your advice below, would I not need a battery?

How simple is it to replace the Memory-Boost-Internal-SSD

I could buy a replacement battery just to keep it simple for me.

The battery would be a waste of money in my opinion. Better to put that money into buying a better second user laptop.

There is nothing difficult about swapping the drive. But if it is your first time, everything might seem daunting. Though only because it is completely new.
Will guide you through the process if you decide you want to give it a try. Will take you no more than ten minutes to swap the drive over.

Swapping to a solid state drive will make it feel like a completely new laptop. but that is as much as I would spend on that device.
Any more and you would be better off putting it towards something better.

It's a shame that you aren't a tinkerer, because those models are very user friendly.
Even a novice can upgrade the CPU in that device, as long as they are not afraid to try it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_QBd1NuDJw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_QBd1NuDJw

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-Pentium-Processor-T3500/143397818474

Simply put, the two things that make your device somewhat sluggish are the ten year old single core Celeron CPU and the magnetic spinning disc storage(HDD).
At the moment, you wait ages for the device to fully load in so you can use it. Then,, trying to do more than one thing at a time results in a sluggish experience.

Fitting a dual core CPU and a solid state drive eliminates those bottlenecks. Laptop fully and ready for use in seconds, not minutes.

So for under £30, you'll have a much better general purpose device.

EveryWhere

But, as stated above, if a battery is all that you want, expect to pay £30 to £40 for it. Not good.

Another example here; https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32811416595.html

No attractive battery options.

FirstTimer4Me

Thank you EW

I only use the laptop for browsing / emails, I don't do games and very little downloading.

But if it is your first time, everything might seem daunting. Though only because it is completely new.
Will guide you through the process if you decide you want to give it a try. Will take you no more than ten minutes to swap the drive over.

This'll be my 1st time trying something like this, I'll take your advice and come for instructions how to change once I get the SSD as per your link above

EveryWhere

Are you running Windows 7 or Windows 10?

Are you happy to start afresh with a clean install of the operating system?

FirstTimer4Me

Sorry for the delay, not been well

EveryWhere wrote: »

Are you running Windows 7 or Windows 10?

Windows 10

EveryWhere wrote: »

Are you happy to start afresh with a clean install of the operating system?

No idea of the benefits or how to go about it.

EveryWhere

FirstTimer4Me wrote: »

Sorry for the delay, not been well



Windows 10



No idea of the benefits or how to go about it.

All explained in post #5. If you'd like to speed things up.
If not, you can spend £30 to £40 on another battery if that it what you want. In my opinion, that would not be a sensible purchase. £10, perhaps. £40, definitely not.

FirstTimer4Me

EveryWhere wrote: »

In my opinion, that would not be a sensible purchase. £10, perhaps. £40, definitely not.

Thanks EW, right at this moment in time, spending £10.00 on a replacement battery is probably my best option