Asus UL80VT Battery Wiggle/Loose

Hello I hope i don't get yelled at cause i posted this on another thread, but I'll try it anyways.

I hope someone has some input.

I've had my UL80VT-A1 for about 2 weeks, and initially was loving everything. I understand everyone's comments about the build quality, and how it could be better, but I too thought the pros far outweighed the cons. However, over the last few days something has become increasingly annoying, or i've just noticed it more..but the battery, even though it's locked in and is functioning properly, seems to be loose. I can feel it wiggle when i set the computer down, and when i push on the battery, sometimes when i'm carrying the computer, basically is this just a design flaw and are all UL80VTs the same, with a loose battery? or did i get a defective notebook?

It may just be my OCD that is taking over, but should i worry about this? i contacted ASUS and supposedly they haven't heard many complaints about this, and a tech is looking into it.

does everybody who owns the UL80VT have similar movement/wiggle room around the battery? Is there a fix, or is this something that I should send back to ASUS?

let me reiterate, the battery life and connection is fine, just a lot of wiggle room or so it seems around the battery.

thanks for your input!

 

I have an UL50 - 'bigger brother" of yours.. Battery wiggling too - it seems loose in vertical direction. One can feel it especially when keeping laptop an your knees - when u set computer down or pick it u

 

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I've seen others posting about this problem so it seems like it might be common. I'm doubtful that a replacement unit will be any better.

If the connection is good, is there any chance of using a bit of card or paper to stop the wiggling? I had to do this once on a old IBM notebook - obviously not the best solution but sometimes it is easier to do this than replace a perfectly good notebook and take the risk the replacement is different (ie. may be better or may be worse).