Inspiron battery with little use dies totaly, no memory my ass

Well my 1505, which is clearly over its warranty by now, starts flashing its battery light like its charging it, even though %99.9 of its life has been plugged in. I pressed the button on the battery while its plugged in and get 5 green lights, and windows says its %100 full. So I was abit shocked when I pulled the power plug only to have the laptop power down abruptly. The battery is totaly incapable of powering up the laptop, and pressing the button on the battery when its yanked out yields NO lights.

Now people "say" lithium ion has no memory.. I say their full of crap. I have 2 toshiba laptops that also have lithium ion batterys that were rarly used and kept at full charge, and they only get like 5 minutes of charge now. And currently my dell gets 0 seconds of charge now.. oh but it REPORTS itself as full charge all the time (the toshiba laptops also say they are only at %87 power at the point of abrupt power downs).

Batteries are the ink cartridges of the laptop world.

 

Lithium Ion batteries don't have a memory effect but instead have a very short lifespan. 2 years max, and I've heard that can be from date of manufacture not date of first use. My old laptop did the same, after two years it would say it was at 100% charge but lasted no time at all and eventually the battery would not register charge at all.

Grand Admiral

 

It's a lith ion battery. They don't last.

 

It will cost $140 to replace.. it damn well better last. As it is it cant even keep the laptop from shutting off if I have a power out now.

On a more humorous point, the replacement battery on dells own web site is actually littered with nothing but bad review comments from other users. hundreds of people complaining about how they dont last over more then a year and such.

 

They're lithium-ion batteries. They have an expected half-life of about 1-2 years. This is due to their very nature as a lithium-ion battery, not because of Dell's shady practices. In fact, almost all laptop companies get their batteries from the exact same place.

Take a basic chemistry course if you have to.

 

so tech gets better, battery life gets shorter? I know my old laptops lose alot of capacity over time, but they didnt outright die a year later.