Affordable Battery for Powerbook & Co.

I have something else in the aging 12 “Powerbook was used by me in recent months actually been quite rare.
The reason:
The battery is flat! More than five minutes, he has by no more, then go from the Powerbook unmotivated.
A new Dell Latitude E5500 battery from Apple would beat with cira 150 euros.
For me to get a bit too much money, only to the old Powerbook from early retirement.
Remedy but in this case, the provider of third-party batteries.
They promise identical, compatible batteries for a fraction of the price.
One of these batteries I have sometimes worried I was somehow curious.

Well packed the battery came with me)

The battery of the third-party costs around 50 euros, leaving just a third of the original batteries.
Its price is definitely schonmal very attractive.
Speaking of attractive:
Visually, the third-party product to Apple’s original looks amazingly similar.
One has the Apple battery is not in direct comparison are wrong, you’d think one would be an original accessory on.

But what about the fit?
The Dell Vostro 1510 battery is a little heavier purely in the battery slot, but it fits.
However, the differences are in detail:
While the Apple battery seamlessly “hugs”, it looks at the third-party battery a little bit different.
We see a slight gap and it is here and there one or other protruding edge.
But I can live with, especially since the Powerbook anyway has some signs of wear.

Let’s move to battery power from?
This part is a Li-Ion battery and are noted on the label, 5200 mAh, so on paper slightly more than the Apple battery.
In everyday use I come with the rebuilt battery in about two to three hours of operation, depending on what I do with the computer.
For 5200 mAh surprisingly little, with the smaller Dell xps m1210 battery, the Apple Powerbook achieved his best times over four hours of running time.

Also, the charging behavior of the battery – we call it – “strange”:
Charging takes super long if the Powerbook is switched off or in sleep mode.
I put the empty Powerbook at night, it’s around the next morning loaded (according to the display) to 60%.
Mind you, after about six or seven hours to charge!
Faster the battery is charging, if you anl?sst the device.
Then the device after several hours at 100%.
Why is that now: No idea!
This is schonmal one thing that bothers me a bit.

Another is “nuisance” is in my mind that the Powerbook seems the battery life of this battery is not properly calculated.
Fresh as the charge on the Powerbook will run for four hours.
After a few minutes of operation, the display jumps between two and three hours back and forth.
Also additional programs like Coconut Battery or similar apps do not display any reasonable values.
Furthermore, the Dell XPS M1530 battery seems to discharge to the end of its capacity very quickly.
To about 60, 70% (according to indication) it takes about one and a half to two hours. Then you go quickly to zero.
Sometimes he jumps sometimes 60% to 5% directly and would then be plugged into the current.
Somehow, a very strange behavior.

I’ve become used to it, but so entirely satisfactory, it is not natural.

My conclusion:
For just under 50 € you get in many online stores batteries from other manufacturers at attractive prices.
If you can live with the quirks described above (strange “Load Behavior”, inaccurate battery gauge, etc.), saving in this way over two-thirds of money compared to an original battery from Apple.
However, we must also mean that there are third party batteries, and a penny.
It’s quite possible that one battery is like the Apple original 1:1, or that a different battery model just half an hour to deliver power before it would be recharged.
Most of the batteries will probably (like me) of Performance & Design ago somewhere in the middle.

In my case, I can live with the restrictions, I would have to work professionally or it would be my only computer, I would rethink the whole thing again and attack more likely with the Apple battery.