Laptop Battery for Dell Latitude D620, D630 Series (Extended Capacity, 9 Cells)

Physically, this item is nearly identical to the Dell branded battery. There are no quality issues at all. It does have the battery meter on the bottom, just like the original one. Since my Dell unit crapped out after 18mo, I can't do any side by side comparisons, but I think the original unit had a bit more capacity. I recall getting 4 hours on my D620 running Fedora Linux (thought that was for maybe the first couple months). This unit is maybe 3-3.5 but again, I haven't really done any scientific tests. It could be that I'm just harder on the battery now than I was then. Either way, it's a steal at roughly 1/3 the cost of the Dell unit.

I got this battery from BrilliantStore.com after talking to the customer care person for a bit. I was skeptical due to the the extended structure of this battery that projects out from the regular standard form. It houses the extra cell which makes this a 7200mAh (9-Cell) capacity battery. Convinced that the 30 day return policy is real than fiction, I purchased it to give it a try. After trying it, I grew accustom to the extended structure in the back, since it is snuggled across the entire back part of my laptop, it acted as a stand preventing my laptop from accidentally tip (top) over.