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I bought one of these for my old laptop which was dying. The new battery works as well as the original one did. I've had it for about a year now, and I haven't seen that much degradation in performance yet.

It charged in less than an hour, no documentation as to charging, but it's worked fine so far. I 'rescued' this laptop from a trip to the dump and have Sabayon mini edition running on it. Now it's portability is restored as well. I'm pleased with the product.

This product worked great for about a month, then it completely went dead, and was as worthless as the battery I replaced, giving you about 10 seconds before the machine totally shut off if you unplugged the AC. I called, and Tigerdirect said there was nothing they could do, but they instructed me on what to say to IBM Tech Support, regarding when I made the purchase and what not. The kicker is they wanted me to lie! I stayed on the line while the TigerDirect person connected me with IBM, and made the introduction to the IBM Tech Support person, he gave them my laptop serial number, (which should have nothing to do with warranty on an aftermarket battery!) and then turned it over to me, then dropped off the line! I told the IBM person, who mind you knew everything about me from my serial number, that I was being asked to lie in order to cheat them out of a battery by a rep at TirgerDirect, I applogized on TigerDirect's behalf and hung up. That was a $65 mistake!