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    Does 4 cell + 3 cell bay = 7 cell battery?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by soda97, Dec 24, 2007.

  1. soda97

    soda97 Notebook Geek

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    Lenovo T61
    for my personal preference, I would like to stick with 4 cell battery
    'coz aesthesis, it sits flush and it also fits better in my bag
    however, i needed to have more juice
    instead of getting the extended battery
    I would like to keep the 4 cell and add the 3 cell bay battery
    since I don't use the ODD that much

    so the question is, does the 4 cell + 3 cell bay = 7 cell extended battery?
    or would it be less since they are separated?


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    Vizel Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah about the same I'd say, or at least with my latitude it was similar
     
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  3. soda97

    soda97 Notebook Geek

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    thx for the reply
    about how much could I get out of the 7 cell battery for normal usage with wireless on?


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    About 4-3.5 hours on low brightness.
     
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    a 4 cell battery gets me 2 hours on the max performance settings...so a 7 cell getting you around 3.5 sounds about right.....maybe a little more if you dim the screen and kill the speakers.
     
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    where is the best place/web site to buy a bay battery? lowest price?
     
    alacrityathome, Dec 24, 2007
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  7. soda97

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    that sounds just fair...
    I was hoping could get up to 4 to 5 hrs...
    The lowest price I've seen so far is via the CPP on Lenovo


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    You should be able to find the watt hour specs for each battery on the lenovo site, and you should be able to pretty much add them up. I would think they would be very close in overall capacity.
     
    LaptopGuru, Dec 24, 2007
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