How long after the production of a laptop is stopped,1 can get a battery ?

How many years after the production of laptop production has stopped, 1 can still get batteries ?

If not from the laptop company, other sources ?

 

Quite a while. I can still get batteries for an Inspiron 8600 from 2003, although i buy third party.

 

Third party from whom ?

 

ebay is usually a good place to start.

 

Ok, that's 7 years , anybody else with more years ?

 

Laptops have like a 40% failure rate in 4 years. There's not going to be many parts produced for a machine that's most likely broken after 7 years.

 

Depends on the type of laptop. Consumer grade laptops typically have a shorter life, and thus parts are not made for a long period.

Business grade laptops typically are made better and last longer, plus manufacturers typically promise to large businesses that parts will be made available for a certain # of years after the machine stops production.

We've been able to buy parts for Dell Latitudes even 10 years after Dell has stopped selling the model. Most of the time directly from Dell, but on a few occasions from 3rd party sellers.

Usually these machines aren't used on a daily basis by an individual since after 10 years, the machine is extremely obsolete.
We have some specialized equipment that is controlled by laptops and these equipment usually doesn't get replaced until 15 to 20 years later. And you can't change anything on the laptops or they won't work anymore. Some of them still run windows 95.

 

Do you have some link to this 40 % failure rate...

 

I do think this rate is a little exaggerated...20% would be more realistic and so far i haven't seen a link that claims to be so high..

 

And what do you mean by failure? Hard drive failure, dropping the laptop on concrete failure, touchpad stops working failure, dust completely clogs the fan failure?

 

All of the above sounds about right. And that's especially true considering the portable nature of a laptop.

I'd be a stretch for me to invest much in a desktop that old, let alone a laptop. After a point, the depreciation just becomes too great to put up any further investment.

I still have my Dell Inspiron form 2003, but once the battery died there was no way I was going to invest in a new one. Too many other parts had already failed; and at that point, it was already being held together with gum and duct tape.

Beware the third party batteries, as there is little assurance of quality.

 

With HP, 40% is actually true.

 

... i don't think so.

 

I think 40% is definitely pushing it. Even 20% seems high to me. The other thing to consider among failing laptops is why they failed. A lot of people I went to college with got laptops their first year, and quite a few failed in their third or fourth year of college (not more than 20%, but I wouldn't claim my circle of friends as a reliable data sample). In retrospect some of the laptops that failed don't surprise me, because their owners would mistreat them by lifting them up by the corners, etc. So when considering failure rates, consider whether the laptop failed, or the user failed to take care of the laptop.

 

Exactly my point. I see people toting active units around like sacks of potatoes without the least concern as to the damage they may be causing; and I also see no reason why a good laptop shouldn't last through the entire 4 years of college.

Incidentally, the majority of notebooks on campus are Macbooks with HP a close second, followed by Toshsiba.

 

Usually notebooks use 4/6/8/9 3.7V 16850 cells internally, so could get a battery repacker to repack your existing battery with newer cells. Can get a higher capacity battery that way too.