Laptop Battery is 33% of what it used to be...

I recently realized that my laptop isn't lasting nearly as a long as it used to. When I first got it, it was reaching battery life of about 2 hours and 45 minutes. Now, it can barely last 50 minutes. I read up on some battery tips and conditioning your battery. They say to condition your battery by letting it run down completely and recharge a few times. It also says that it shouldn't happen to Li-ion batteries. I checked my battery, which happens to be a Li-ion.

So what's going on?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

Every time you recharge your battery you have to regrow a crystalline matrix. As time goes on, it regrows less and less perfectly (due to ), so you have less energy stored within the regrown matrix, so you get less time using your laptop before it runs out of juice.

Li-ion batteries still have the same problem, it's just that they're a lot better than some older technologies, so it takes longer for them to have this problem.

That's what I thought, but surely these batteries don't succumb to 33% of battery life within a year...

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Alright, I need some battery advice.

My battery is just getting progressively worse, and Acer doesn't provide replacement batteries. So I took it upon myself to go find a replacement online. So I find out what kind of battery I have and try to find some. This turns up 0 results.

I then type in the model of my notebook, which turns up multiple results. The thing is, It's a different model than the one I currently have right now (The battery is a different model, the notebook is the correct model.) The battery looks like it'd fit in the notebook fine, but my battery also says to replace only with a battery of the same kind only. Not doing so will risk battery explosion and all sorts of bad things. I then look at the specs of my current battery, which says 4400.00 mAh capacity and 14.4V voltage. The specs of the other battery that claims to be compatible matches except for the voltage, which says 14.8V voltage. I'm pretty sure this isn't a good combination.

So should I just ditch this notebook soon and find another one?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.