Figured a nice, melodramatic title would do...
I'm getting too old to be pulling these all-nighters...
The saga of the T61 battery continues. I've been exchanging emails with the seller, which was sort of like dunqua-dunquing back and forth with no progress being made. I finally actually got my head out of the clouds, and did some digging.
My T61 is a "type 7663", which (according to Lenovo references) uses a # 42T5229 battery. Checking images of that type of battery, they matched what I had in my laptop. So...
I sent a note back to the seller, along with a comparison photo, and said that if they had that particular model of battery, we could do a swap. Otherwise, I'd just return the battery they sent me for a refund. Simple enough.
Haven't heard a word back from them since early this morning. So, I'm waiting. And waiting...
This is going to be protractedly fun, isn't it?
At least I can still use my T61 for decent periods off the old battery. But it's charging to about 82% of capacity, and I'm not sure how long it'll keep doing that.
In better news, the little X60s is shining. Things seem to be going quite well with the Lubuntu install. (Which I'm currently using.) I ended up giving it about 25 GB of space on the drive, which is roomy for now, and leaves decent space for any work I might need to do in XP.
So, i'm now walking very lightly, waiting for some unmitigated disaster to strike my new little notebook.
Oh well. So it goes...
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