Gateway 9 cell batteries very low quality?

Hi, I have 2 notebooks p-7908u, both 2 weeks old, both notebooks alredy have 9% of wear level battery, that makes me very concerned.

Can you people that owns gateway notebooks with those 9 cell battery comment about your batteries and how much time you have the notebook? If possible inform wear level and current maximum capacity..

I want check if this behavior is normal or if is an issue, most people think isnt normal, so checking those info with you will be good to see if I just got bad look or if gateway batteries are very bad quality ones( as some people say that have 1 year old battey with 9% wear level..but battery behavior varies a lot as Im seeing )

 

9% seems like a lot of wear. How exactly did you check to get that percentage? I still am able to get about 3 hours of battery life out of my p7805u, which has been about the same for about a year of usage.

 

Yeah, how do you check battery wear? I'm curious as to what mine is. I also get around 3 hours. I used to get 4+, but that was with different components, so I don't know what my actual limit is.

 

1 year old. 15% wear. i don't use batteries now unless i'm travelling. Also the battery life goes down if its constantly 100% charged and system runs using power from the outlet. Using Everest you can check the wear level. But i'm not sure how authentic its reading are. And about gateway batteries, bear in mind that the life of Li Ion decreases with heat and time. So these batteries, mostly all are not new. They must have been stocked some where(possible under normal temps or a lil higher) and and must be at least a few months old. These factors could play a major role. I learned about this a few days earlier when i found out its wear level. If not using batteries store it in a cool place(read about putting it in refrigerator somewhere) inside a ziploc bag.

 

I have noticed a dip in my battery's full charge level with hwmonitor. I'm also concerned about this now,as my 7915u is only a month old and the battery has already worn down.

 

I know about all the cares that should be taken about the batteies..the thing is both batteries started with just 2% of wear level in the first day!
It jumped to 5% than 9%, my brothers notebook(remember I have 2) jumped from 2% to6% then 9%.

Guys you can check those information on everest(like said before), but HWmonitor is lighter and shows you designed capacity and current full charged capacity(everest shows that too, but is far more complete)

 

One year 15% wear sounds very good, I feel I will get 15% wear in a few days...

 

HP battery`s are bad a well, I had 2 with over 10-12% wear on delivery

On the other hand Acer has been great 1 had 6% more capacity than stated and another had 3% more also.

 

on my p7805u i dont know how worn the battery was when i received it but right now after almost a yr of use (a little over 11 months) my battery according to everest has 21% wear on it which seems real good considering i use my laptop daily sometimes on for over 24hrs. considering the extremely heavy use my lappy goes through i dont think its that bad as i still get a nice over 2 hr use on a charge even with all the upgrades ive done.

 

Curiosity got the best of me while browsing this thread and I downloaded Everest, the pro trial version. After installing it it says I have 5% battery wear.

I use my laptop as a desktop replacement and its nearly always plugged into the outlet with the battery in. I've had my laptop since July, 2008.

Just thought I'd post. Probably has a lot to do with not using the battery power often, although interesting to know that having the battery in constantly at 100% hasn't seemed to wear it down much.

Hope this helps, for what it's worth.

 

Ive had my lappy one year exactly and everest shows my wear level at 23%. I use my battery all the time usually right until it dies and most days I get around two and a half hours before the little warning pops up