Last minute laptop battery?

I doan unnerstanned whi is not possible for you to use power adapter trick. Put one end of power adapter into wall socket, other end into laptop. Switch laptop on. Laptop work without battery.

If concept too difficult for you, perhaps now have reason staring in face for your last psot on site, yes?

Devil_n_Disquiz said :

aahhhhhhh Apple, Why would you use anything else ?

Ahh, the irony. I’ve owned a number of Apple devices…and in each instance Apple in their infinite wisdom have decided that replacing batteries is not a task that a mere mortal such as myself should be able to carry out.

So, you can walk into an Apple store and buy a replacement battery – for a small number of things.

(I know, I know…that small number of things may well have included what BG was after and she wouldn’t have been in this mess…but I’m still outraged!)

😉

Devil_n_Disquiz said :

aahhhhhhh Apple, Why would you use anything else ?

.. because they don’t make netbooks, perhaps? Or because emulating Windows isn’t as good as the real thing? Or because they’re fast becoming the evil they’re trying to replace?

(Yes, I own multiple items of Apple hardware.)

Coffee?

candy???

Boyfriend, I know you’re reading this thread! We have a morning tea date. 😉

Thanks for all your ideas everyone! All the places you named can order anything but don’t carry any laptop batteries unless you’re lucky enough to want something that someone else has ordered and then cancelled after it already arrived.

if you’re going to granville, bg, pop in to el sweetie (south side of the railway stn, on the main street running north south, on your left) and have some coffee and platter of the finest lebanese sweets – baclava, etc – this side of the middle east! don’t pass up an opportunity, and then grab a kilo take away pack you choose piece by piece yourself. yum.

aahhhhhhh Apple, Why would you use anything else ?

Yes Harris have them in stock! In Victoria. I’m literally angry with rage.

Battery World claim not to have any lappy batteries in stock in Canberra. In fact, even the HP repairer don’t have any in Canberra and the supplier’s nearest depot is in Sydney.

As it happens we’re passing very near to a supplier in Granville that has a beautiful 12 hour battery – I just hope we can be forgiven for any delays in our work!

In response to #8 … yes, I do need to be prepared. I might give Harris a try just to see if they can supply me with a redundant battery! I’ve tried everyone else.

Boy scout motto here…

Battery World advertise that they have batteries for everything “in stock”. If they can’t provide the goods, I suggest submitting a false advertising complaint.

With most laptops the power supply interfaces directly with the motherboard, charging the battery after this connection. So if you don’t mind plugging it into a wall to use, you should be fine.

Also, is it the battery that has died, 100% guaranteed?

Have you tried Battery World? They claim to have batteries for anything, and have them all in-stock.

Alternatively, you can probably get a laptop power-adaptor from battery world or some other retailer.

Try Harris Tech in Fyshwick

http://ht.com.au/N/Computers-Notebook_Options-HP-Notebook_Batteries/list.hts

long shot, but try Hardly Normal at Fyshwick, Dick Smith and JB.

NOBODY wants to sell me a battery! I’m only buying Apple from now on!

The Canberra HP repairer is not the stockist and the stockist is in SYDNEY!

My boyfriend is laughing at me saying “I just walk into the Apple shop…”

Didn’t get any luck with Lapy King but they were super friendly and put me on to the official HP repair people!

One of my friends just phoned me up telling me how he usually buys 2 batteries at once. THANKS that’s great advice NOW…. (grrrr)

Give Lapy King in Civic a call. If they dont have one, I’m sure they would know where to find one.
1/4 Mort St, Canberra City ACT 2600? – (02) 6257 0177?