I just got a pretty good deal on an old ThinkPad (think 10 years old now) to use as a beater for screwing with ArchLinux and hopefully to find a real use for. It’s in great shape like it was never really used, but big shock, the battery is at 50% effective capacity and what’s there disappears in less than an hour.
Would you bother buying a battery replacement for it? On one hand I want it to actually be usable on the go because that was sort of the point. On the other, while replacement batteries exist, I’m worried that they’re already very old themselves and already “expired”. Would you take the chance? I don’t want to let this thing go to waste when it’s still perfectly usable, in fact it’s pretty fast.
Oh, that’s actually a thing I’m debating on right now! I bought a Toshiba Satellite L770 the other week for cheap—it’s what, 12 year old? Needs a battery replacement because it does the same thing yours does, and I need to upgrade the ram today to 8gb, but otherwise it’s in pretty damn good condition,
In the end, I think I’d personally buy a replacement third party battery in case the adapter ever gets broken and you want a good hour to transfer any important files over.