Large Capacity Battery for VAIO® SZ, FE, AR, N, C, FS, FJ and S Series notebooks

List Price: $460.36 Discount Price: $225.00

Features:

• Extend the battery life 1.5x longer than the standard capacity battery
• Using advanced cell technology and quality parts, the large capacity battery has the stamina for long work sessions and travel
• Get a spare to extend the battery life dramatically on the go for lengthy meetings and flights
• SZ Series large capacity battery for standard and premium series has up to 10.5 hours battery life
• FE Series large capacity battery has up to 6 hours battery life

Accessories:

Moleskine Small Ruled Notebook

Customer Reviews:

new battery went dead in less than a year [Posted on 2007-09-06]
My new battery went dead in less than a year. The battery that came with the laptop- puchased new direct from sony- was totally dead in less than a year. Wont take a charge. Have to use the ac adapter always. Not ok.

not so great [Posted on 2007-10-08]
Says 5 to 10 hours, I'm lucky if it lasts 3 1/2 hours of use.

Use it at school because there are no close outlets. With class lasting 4 + hours, I ended up bringing an extension cord.

Also, very expensive. Not worth the price.

Not very good value for money [Posted on 2008-04-27]
I bought this extended life battery for my SZ-470N exactly one year ago. I used it less than half the time since the stock battery is fine for most situations. Now, it lasts about 20 minutes on a full charge which with Vista, is about enough time to boot up and pull email. Forget lasting through a domestic flight, much less an international one (and the SZ laptop sucks too much power for most in-seat power systems). Even when this battery was new, I only got about 3 to 3.5 hours on a charge with normal Office applications, viewing PDF docs, etc. which was 50% more than the stock SZ battery which got 2 hours when new (and about 1 to 1.5 hours today). The VGP-BPL2C battery is now no longer providing enough uptime for me to bother including in my carry-on bag. By the way, be careful when shopping online as there are numerous fake BPL2C batteries out there which only claim 6600mAh and no doubt are pieces of junk even worse than the miserable excuse for a battery that Sony sells. I understand that Li-ion batteries have a finite life, but there is no reason Sony has to charge hundreds of dollars for a component which cost them less than 10 dollars to make in Japan (or China). If the battery cost $50 then maybe I wouldn't mind it crapping out before its one year anniversary. But having a list price of $399 and discounted to merely $250 it's a complete ripoff.

Good item, way over priced though [Posted on 2008-05-05]
On Vista this battery gives me about 4.5 hours. Over priced but if you need extra hours on the go you need it. The old regular battery dies in 20 mins after I have had it for almost 2 years.

Large battery holds own, so far [Posted on 2008-06-13]
I've had this large capacity battery now for about a month and I am getting around 4.5-5.0 hours of charge on it regularly. So no problems and it is working as expected. My worry is that I also previously had a large capacity battery that I ordered with my Viao about 2 years ago. That battery routinely held a 3.0-3.5 hour charge, with no problems though daily use until one day it just up and died with no warning. So, yes I am glad that I have a new working battery with a long charge, but I am weary that it will just up and die at some point. Oh well, what can you do.

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