Hey People my laptops battery broke because the battery was swollen and was replaced my laptop had to be opened, I backed up my stuff on external hard drive, will see if the new battery works better, all of those screws hard to remove
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which laptop model do you have
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I have Dell Inspiron 7591 that’s my model, the last battery lasted 3 years
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3 years is pretty good, I hope your new battery lasts well
that laptop is one of the nicer ones to change a battery, just a few simple steps
- remove the bottom panel screws and panel
- carefully remove the battery connector from the socket on the motherboard
- remove the battery screws and battery
- pop in the new battery and screws
- plug in the new battery cable to the motherboard
- put the bottom panel on (no screws yet) and test to make sure its working
- if all is good then screw the bottom panel
I recently changed a battery for a customer with a gaming laptop that that was a real headache
I had to disassemble the whole laptop to pieces because the battery was buried inside 
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Oh one more point I forgot to say
Some laptops (im not sure if this applies to this model) you find that after changing the battery and switching on you just get a black screen !
This can look like something is wrong but don’t panic as a lot of laptops will show a black screen for maybe a minute while they reconfigure themselves but eventually you should see the usual boot logo appear
This has caught me out a few times especially on laptops that have no power leds 
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I did not get a black screen 
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Don’t you miss those times when removing the battery was as simple as pulling two latches at the bottom and the battery popped out?
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I’ve got a 10 year old laptop that has one slider switch for battery release!
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I had Asus laptops and they broke really easily, and even on warranty they didn’t won’t to repair them so I move to Dell, My Dell works like new again
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I’ve got a toshiba L50-b from around 2014, bought it 2nd hand for less than £50
It still has the original battery and it still runs for about 3 hours on battery power
I got really lucky
It looks just like this but with Linux Mint instead 
oh and mine now has a black trackpad as the original white one de-laminated during the hot weather and had to be replaced
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Doesn’t that mean you’ll also get the Ubuntu snap stuffs? 
Why not LMDE 
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snap is not installed and is disabled in linux mint but you could enable it if you’re feeling dangerous
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Returning on topic, the last laptop I had before I switched to a MacBook was a Lenovo Ideapad 100-15IBD from around 2015, which my dad now uses; probably a laptop made when changing the battery pack was a bit harder than just releasing a lever.
I surely miss the times where I had to release a lever to unmount the battery pack (but I also had two other laptops from Acer which had that system as well)…
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My own laptop is a 12 year old Samsung Chronos, Core I5 etc.
Still got the original battery that lasts about 3-4 hours with moderate use.
Still running Windows 7 - Can’t even remember when that was last updated.
It does everything I need. Just hope it doesn’t expire before I do
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At least with these laptops the battery isn’t glued in like a macbook 
I hate those things. Done so many and its never easy, Isopropyl alcohol, plastic pry tool and a lot of hard work
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I have an old Commodor64 I also have an old Sanyo CRT tv and games for it on a MicroSD 64 GB card. Commodor64 works really well
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How I wished I had a Commodore 64 and still had an old CRT as well…
Of course Apple has to use super-strong adhesives to keep batteries safe!
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