HP laptops(DV5) and their 6-cell battery's...

Hey everybody, 2 weeks ago my gf and I went out and purchased the HP G60-126ca laptops to only return them a few days later due to their incredibly short battery life.

I took the serial number into work(I work at HP) and ran the serial number to find out that the 6-cell battery was 2200mAh which would equal about 1 hour 30 or so min.


Now I'm about to order a dell but looking at some other higher priced HP laptops I was wondering what the battery life on some of them can be? or if any of you have some of these notebooks.


I can't run them in the system because I need a serial number to get the battery information, or else I'd do this at work


Does anybody here have any of the following notebooks?

HP Pavilion dv5-1140us Entertainment Notebook PC
HP Pavilion dv5-1250us
HP Pavilion dv5-1159se Special Edition Notebook PC


I'm just wondering what the mAh is of these 6-cell battery's. (I work for desktop support so I don't have too much access to the detailed laptop information unles I have serial numbers)


Thank you
bart

 

With the DV5 you can choose a 6 cell, high capacity 6 cell, and 12 cell if you customize them. Most of the preconfigured ones come with the normal 12 cell... and unfortunately for us in Canada we don't have the luxury of build to order.

You can find original 12 cell batteries on ebay for ~$100 plus shipping from China.

 

I think the dv5's standard 6-cell is a 4400 mAh battery.

 

Also, you may want to wait until February when HP is supposed to come out with it's new Boston-Power batteries. I believe these are supposed to have a longer battery life as well as a much greater number of recharge cycles.