Reply To: Replacement battery for Cube Thinker i35

[Kyle Battle]

Hi Chris no worries, people will be able to find the battery easily using those search terms.

No no, the battery hasn’t swelled up or anything – I’ve not found any problems with the battery itself, I don’t want to give people that impression. What I did notice at first was a small issue with the amount of travel for keys in the center of the keyboard. I could see that the laptop’s shell – that portion of the body sitting directly under the keyboard – was sitting up a bit more than normal in the center compared with the shell at the edges, as if there was pressure being applied to it from underneath. This affected the travel for keys in the very center of the keyboard like T, G, N- when hitting these keys my fingers would be “bottoming out” ie contacting the laptop shell sooner than normal.

I disassembled the laptop and made sure the battery was as tightly taped down as possible and that fixed it.  That’s when I realized that the extra 0.5mm in thickness could possibly cause issues if one is careless about how the battery is secured. Or maybe I just didn’t do a good job making sure the laptop body was properly aligned before closing it with the T5 screws. Either way I thought I should point this out to everyone.