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I don't think that they have a model for laptops to replace the battery yet, but in your desktop you could simply add the QBX-1 nuclear reactor card to provide an alternative source of power:
Nuclear Engine For IBM System I - Nick Litten [IBM I AS400 ISeries] Software Developer
Batteries are strange animals. I have an HP laptop that is 10 years old, still has the original battery and that battery is working fine. I have another HP laptop where after 2 years ALL the cells started to swell. The symptom was that the buttons on my touchpad became hard to press. I thought it was a bad touchpad. Then the touchpad started to bow up out of the computer case. That's when I realized I had a battery issue where the swollen cells were putting pressure on the touchpad.
HP was kind enough to replace the battery free of charge even though I was not under warranty and the replacement has been working for about 2 years now.
I would say it depends on your use cases. If you do cross-country flights and you use your laptop most of the time, that's a different use case than if you use your laptop for one hour at the local coffee shop.
For me, since that first case was true for me, I even carried extra batteries back when total battery life was more limited than it is now.
Sad, but true. I've replaced several "flat pack" batteries (including some swollen ones) and they all required at least partial disassembly of the computer. The worst one was a Lenovo Yogabook which required removing the glued-on keyboard using a blow-dryer and a suction cup to get access to the battery. What were the designers smoking when they came up with that design???
I have changed the battery because yesterday it dropped from 27% to 6% directly. So, I told to the seller guy he said come to the shop and he will replace it. But the point is on Windows 1 the battery number and battery health is same as before ?