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I am buying a new main battery for my t61 and I was wondering if you had any suggestions on a place to buy them from other than lenovo? On lenovo's site they say they are shipping in up to 8 weeks. was hoping there might be a reliable reseller that I can products from them quicker.

Thakns, Mark

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Brad

I am also out to buy a new (9 cell) replacement battery for my T61p

Any advice on where to buy? Good deals? Generic vs. Lenovo battery?

Thanks

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Brad

Me too. An new Ultrabay battery would be nice too.
Runtime of a T61+ Quadro is too short with just a 6 cell

But according to notebookreview.com the laptop batteries are on short supply worldwide.

The batteries of the T400 / T61 are equal, right?

I couldn't get a 9 cell from lenovo without waiting 8 weeks or wathever, so I went with a 7cell from B&H It took about a week or so to get here. I have a t61 14" version. I sticks out the back about an inch. My power meter says I can expect 3 hours or so on energy saver mode (not max battery). (Sorry brad I ordered it before I got that last reply from you and I was in a hurry)

The 7 cell is the same dimensions as the 6 cell, just different weight and capacity.

Does anyone know how the 7 cells are connected internal?

14.4 Volt for the 4 cell: right, that's 4 times 3.6 Volt in series
10.8 Volt for the 6 cell: right, that's two series of three parallel
14.4 Volt for the 7 cell: !?!??!??

I was searching eBay for a new battery and found one from the same guy what sold me a like-new Advanced Minidock for € 100 less then new. He sells "new in opened box" from returned wrongly-ordered items (from a regular shop I think). Anyway, the Dock is perfect and the price of this just-ordered battery is too! (€70)