I am seeing a large variance in pricing for laptop batteries - would you go cheap?

[kennysarmy]

I'm after 32 of these models : 4588105-2S

 

I've seen them as cheap as just over £30 and as expensive as £70.

 

I'm guessing you just pays your money and takes your chance

[itskdog]

We're fully HP here, usually buy spare parts direct from them with the school credit card, or an authorised reseller listed on their parts store.

[Fazza]

2-Power batteries are quite reasonably priced so give them a try - we've been using them for years and companies like Duracell actually rebrand 2-Power laptop batteries ones to their own.

[synaesthesia]

Bought a few for us recently, for a couple of staff we went original but got 2-power for the others - 20 quid per battery difference.

I'm wary of 2power though, had a load of refurb HP's (old, old though - HP 630 G3 i think?). Must have been around 50 of them in total, nearly all of them had new 2 power batteries in and *every single one* of them did the spicy pillow dance.

[Fazza]

2 minutes ago, synaesthesia said:

Bought a few for us recently, for a couple of staff we went original but got 2-power for the others - 20 quid per battery difference.

I'm wary of 2power though, had a load of refurb HP's (old, old though - HP 630 G3 i think?). Must have been around 50 of them in total, nearly all of them had new 2 power batteries in and *every single one* of them did the spicy pillow dance.

 

Did you buy them from a reseller or did you get them from the same place you get your refurbished laptops from as I'm convinced they dont store them at the correct temperature which is why they are defective?

[synaesthesia]

Wouldn't surprise me - they came from the laptop refurb place, can't remember who it was as they were bought before I started.

No doubts about performance though - my laptop, an Aero 365 G8 lasted about an hour on it's battery just taking notes from a meeting.

New battery (2 power) did 5 hours straight with youtube playing full screen when I fitted it last week!

Edited June 12 by synaesthesia

[Fazza]

We've been using 2-Power batteries for donkeys years now and never had a problem with them.  Great value for money and so much cheaper than OEM ones.  They do good laptop power supplies too.