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I have horrible battery life on my T520, mainly because the battery is really old.

I wish to purchase a new battery for it and am looking for a place to buy a battery that

1. will ship to Norway without too high shipping cost, and

2. isn’t going to explode in my face.

Any suggestions?

Also, mbrumlow, what distro are you running? And did you customize it in anyway aside from using powertop that you mentioned, to get it to consume low amounts of power while idle?



Track down an OEM Lenovo battery from whatever source you can find. Unfortunately, the aftermarket batteries I've tried all died rapidly, due to cells dying or going out of balance or whatever. Never had an aftermarket last longer than 6 months before it was down to a half hour or something pitiful. Finally sucked it up and bought an OEM battery and two years later it's still giving a couple hours of runtime.




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