Wife’s laptop update – the battery finally arrived

The story so far.

I am in the process of updating my wife’s 2003 HP laptop so that she can still use it for another few years.  I increased the laptop’s memory from a puny 512MB to 1G.  I cloned and swapped out her 30 gig hard drive with an 80 gig hard drive.

I ran into a roadblock in that HP would not honor its recall of my wife’s laptop battery, so I ordered a battery instead from a third party.

Two weeks ago.

And Friday night, it finally arrived.  All the way from Hong Kong.

I slapped the battery into the unit – yes, it fit, I was kinda worried that it wouldn’t – and it spent the night charging up.

This morning, I checked the laptop – and lo and behold, the battery was nicely charged and fully functional.  The laptop retained its power, even after I disconnected the power cord.

So we have full success.  A complete laptop upgrade that only took about two and a half weeks. 🙂

Now hopefully my wife will appreciate all the hard work I put into this project.

We shall see.