** hants...@googlemail.com <hants...@googlemail.com> [2012-07-31 14:35]: > On Tuesday 31 July 2012 13:40:32 Paul Tansom wrote: > > I'm assuming they aren't as good, but can they be that bad > > to justify the price of an official one? (Actually official ones seem to be > > thin on the ground so it seems likely to be a 3rd party anyway.). > > > > Does anyone have any experience / horror stories / good revies / etc.? > > Yes, I got a horror for my Acer Aspire One. If I remember, I'll show it to > you. A quite horrific waste of £40. It came from somewhere in the Far East, > and the internal connections do not even meet. Desmond suggested that it > might be worth prising the thing open and soldering the connections together. > > I cut my losses, but keep it as an object lesson on the side-effects of > parsimony!! > > Branded batteries for me from now on. ** end quote [hants...@googlemail.com]
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