I recently got a new battery for my laptop. I’ve been working without a useful battery for quite some time now. I couldn’t even get all the way through an initial startup without getting a critical battery alert if I wasn’t plugged in. Now I’m happy to say I’ve got a new battery and can truly work wirelessly again.

After checking a variety of websites I ended up at DuracellDirect.com and purchased a replacement battery for my laptop. After receiving my battery, on the paper that was included with the packaging it gave me some tips on prolonging the life of …read more

For some reason the other day I hovered my mouse over the battery meter in my taskbar and noticed the little power bubble pop-up and show the information shown above.
Do you see that?
101% battery power remaining. 101%!
That’s nice to know isn’t it? The only problem is I know better. If you’ve ever seen me at a conference you know I’m now the guy carrying around the power strip so I can hopefully plug-in anywhere I go (or sit to be more exact). The reason is that my battery gives me about 15 minutes of power tops.
That fact was …read more