The Hewlett Packard Extended Life Battery is a grand tool for making your laptop run longer for those times when it is hard to recharge using a power cord. I recently bought this more because my original HP laptop was not running with enough battery as it used to. However I am not reviewing the laptop but the battery and found that the battery is definitely useful. The extended life battery does exactly what the name implies, it extends the battery life your laptop. Some say (as the description above) says it can give up to six hours. Mine was initially around that with a good six to seven hours if I had charged it previously giving my laptop a HUGE amount ...  Read the complete review

I suspect many people like me with an older laptop will struggle for battery life. If you've had your laptop for a while and generally run it off the mains, you often find that when you do rely on your battery, it very quickly runs out on you and there is little more annoying than this happening to you at the most inconvenient moment. Once you're juiced up again, you're never quite sure whether the files you were working on will have been recovered. In recent years, technology and with it, battery life has got a lot better. With trains now featuring electric sockets, it's not the problem for me that it once was, so I now use this hardly at ...  Read the complete review

I had the pleasure of owning an extended life battery as part of my corporate laptop package with one of my previous employers. I never previously realised that these existed and was pleasantly surprised by the battery add-on for stnadard HP laptops. The first and most important aspect of the Extended Life Battery is its performance. Prior to getting one, my laptop would perform well if it worked for an hour and a half without the need to recharge its juices. This is fairly standard across most 15 inch laptops and indeed across the whole laptop range. The bolt-on clips very easily into pre-made jacks on the underside of the laptop and easily allows you to work ...  Read the complete review