ThinkPad X60 Tablet 8 Cell LI-ION Battery (40Y8318)
by Lenovo
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Customer Review: good, but not great
Summary: 4 Stars
* Love it -- it works!!
* Love it -- the battery itself is easy to install.
* Love it -- I placed the order with Amazon in late-November 2009 and the battery I received was manufactured in October 2009; only 1 month old
* Dislike it -- on my X61T, this 8 cell battery reports only about 4hr uptime after a full recharge (on Lenovo's product website it suggested "approximately 7 hours".)
* Dislike it -- the old battery died after only about 14 months
* Hate it -- Lenovo battery does not come with a handy ship-the-old-battery-back-for-safe-disposal shipping slip (Unlike Lenovo, America Power Conversion (APC) does for their UPS batteries. The APC UPS battery comes with a already-filled shipping label; and you can just take out the new battery, put the old battery in the same shipping box, apply the new shipping label, and then send the old batteries back to APC for safe disposal.)
Customer Review: Weight little concern
Summary: 5 Stars
The only potential cons of this 8-cell battery are additional weight and space; spatially, the battery sticks out almost exactly 1" more than the 4-cell battery--as others have mentioned, this really does make a nicer handle than with the 4-cell (the top and bottom are even partially covered with rubber for better grip while holding).
While it does weigh more (I think about a pound), it is of little practical import, especially when balanced against the enormous gain in battery life--my tablet went from about a 1 1/2 to 2 hour charge up to a 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 hour charge. I only notice a bit when I'm carrying my X61 tablet around that it's a bit heavier (I don't find it bothersome at all), but I feel so much more free to do so knowing that I can get an honest multi-hour session out of it.
Customer Review: Thinkpad Tablet X61 8-cell Battery
Summary: 3 Stars
Why I had to buy a new battery? Thinkpad Tablet X61 is only 14 months old and cost more than U$ 2100.
My old original OEM battery gives an error message "A battery error has occurred. The battery cannot be charged."
Lenovo website lists my original battery as "DEFECTED" with free replacement but you must go through a program they provide to test the battery. It never works, forget about calling Lenovo, they don't honor anything. I work for IBM and I have bought 7 laptops before. THIS WAS MY LAST ONE.
I hope the new battery will last more than the first one. It is working just fine for now.
Customer Review: Lenovo 8Cell Li-ion battery for X61 tablet
Summary: 5 Stars
I already had a 4-cell Li-Ion battery for the X61 tablet. Bought this one to provide extended battery for my daily work. It can hold up to 5+ hours. Lenovo also has this great feature where in Control Panel-> power management->battery information, you can set your batteries not to start recharging when the power cable is plugged until the remaining charge is less than some value you set (I set it to 50%). Instead of fequently recharging from 9X% to 100%, this feature can save a lot of battery recharging cycles, and supposedly enlonger the battery life. Overall, I am glad with both of my batteries, and the tablet itself too.Customer Review: CAUTION - not as advertised!
Summary: 1 Stars
This keeps coming up as a replacement for the Lenovo x61 tablet PC. Even if you search for the specific part number (42T5209), it brings this up. Unfortunately, the pictures do not show enough to differentiate and I ordered it (even though it was 2-3x the cost of others, it had a high star rating.) Low star for misrepresenting what PC's it can be used for. They "hide" codes in the description to draw in searchers, but now I have to start again at zeros after returning. Re-searched again this morning and it is STILL misdirecting customers.