M17x R2 - What do you do when batteries are no longer available?

Ah, a member of the EU (no not a bad thing, a good thing actually), also I extend my sympathy to what your country is going through. Your country is considered one of the more open societies and hate to see how your country has had to impose restrictions for safety.

Back to the topic of the warranty, it might be an EU issue. There in the EU they actually look out for the customer more than the corporation (regardless of what those for or against the Brexit say). Sadly here it is just the opposite. Sell defective, pay court settlement, continue business as normal ). We should be also providing great entertainment with our elections. The EU might require a longer warranty than Dell wants to provide so in EU they have no choice but to offer it, here they might not be required. I had thought you were in Canada but Europe does make things different.

No I wouldn't want you to do anything that would jeopardize your private info. I was more curious about the length why it was different. Are you also offered an Accident warranty with the support one?

I remember around 2005 they had a flat battery that you could put under your laptop that provided a charge to your battery. However from reading up on this topic, the USB port is no longer a good choice for the charging of the battery, think someone said it was a volt/amp thing.

I got this nice 26000mah from my cell provider. I asked for a charging cable that was missing from my cell phone, so they sent me screen protectors, the cable (even name brand Samsung) and that charger which it said it could charge some laptops, but Alienware wasn't on it and reading up on that it also advised don't even try using it on most laptops unless specified.

Definitely chase them down on your warranty, you paid for it, they can't hide forever, even from you over here in the US and don't let them give you the slip either. Ask for manager after manager so they get you taken care of.

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M17x R2 - What do you do when batteries are no longer available?

M17x R2 - What do you do when batteries are no longer available?

I seem to remember in the past some company had developed a spare battery that was like a flat notepad cooler, that you plugged into I think the USB for an extra hour or two, but it was very expensive.

I pulled this from PCWorld:

"But if the battery is running out unexpectedly fast, or if your laptop is having trouble figuring out how much power it has left, you might be able to fix the battery's "gas gauge," so it at least gives a more accurate reading.

If you suspect the battery can't tell if it's charged or not, run it through a couple of cycles. Drain it of all its power (yes, this is the exception to the "don't drain the battery" rule mentioned above), recharge it to 100 percent, and then repeat."

This article goes maybe a little too wacky
http://ift.tt/2acSjzI

See if you can find maybe a docking station that has a battery built in that would work with your model (but be careful, this is beyond my knowledge in terms of ac,dc, volts, amps, etc). and what I read, using it to plug into your USB or Media slot can actually cause a bon fire, with your laptop as the campfire.

Another person said, Get a spare battery and an external battery charger. My guess there is a solution but it will take time to find.

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M17x R2 - What do you do when batteries are no longer available?

M17x R2 - What do you do when batteries are no longer available?

It appears that nobody does batteries for the M17x R1 and R2 anymore. I never use my laptop on battery but I do need it in case of power outages so that I have time to shut down without losing all my work.

It used to be possible to purchase a backup battery although these were for desktops. Does such a thing exist for a laptop or am I asking a stupid question considering all laptops already have a battery?

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