Need to get a new battery for my mapping laptop (dell 2600 inspiron, looking on ebay the most cost effective ones are from the far east, anyone bought stuff from chineese / Hong Kong sellers? should they be avoided?

or can some one recommend a nother source?

This chap is in Ireland?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270377870014



I've used http://www.laptopbits.co.uk for batteries before but I checked for yours and it's silly money!

All the best

I'm using a cheapie chinese one now and I had one in my last lappy which was good too.

No probs save money

Older laptops are a mission to get working properly...

I ended up buying a 12V power supply that plugs into the car.... means I can run the laptop all day long provided the alternator keeeps the battery charged up.. Maplins sell them!

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Originally posted by Blackbird Rush

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Your telling me!

Been trying to get the dell to connect to our wireless network, its running win2K , both the other laptops in the house (vista & win XP) work fine with the wireless and connect to the net OK (wireless is encrypted) the win 2K lappy has a PCMCIA wireless card that uses a seperate piece of software to connect to the router it appears to connect and accepts the encryption key but i cant conect to the net or see the win2K lappy on the router via the browser log in on the vista machine.......

Any ideas....

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Originally posted by mcerd1
weirdly the only place I can find that sells them is dabs.com -
its an ASUS L2000D, any suggestions ?

(blackbird - sorry for the hijack)

[Edited on 22/4/09 by mcerd1]

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