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Is it worth replacing the battery in my 7 year old laptop? (hexbear.net)
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I've had this laptop for seven years. It's an Acer Nitro (cheesy name I know). Replaced the ssd and upgraded the memory around 2024, it goes beautifully despite its age. However the battery is running at about 64% efficiency and I'm dreading that any day now it's going to swell or something.

It's an easy laptop to take apart and updrade to an extent. I know the battery is replaceable. The problem is I wonder if it's worth it to just buy a new laptop. Problem is I can't really afford to get a new laptop unless I get something worse than what I have now. Plus I'm not sure how long it's got to live even if I replace the battery.

Plus I'm... attached to the little guy. I've spent so much work fixing it and it's always run so well that I'm sentimental now.

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[–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I would say its worth it to get the battery for now. Hard to say where the PC market is going and honestly things don't look great, but if its still working then I would say the battery should hold you over in case things do get better for the PC market.

While you're in there you can also clean it out and reapply thermal paste so that it helps the CPU and GPU (if it has one) last a bit longer as well. Might even boost performance a bit.

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