Opinion on knock-off batteries for laptop...?

PastorCharlie wrote:
Therefore there is nothing to stop a battery manufacturing company from manufacturing their own brand of batteries at a higher service level than they do for dell and/or others.

They are free also to manufacture batteries at a higher service level for companies other than dell.

Dell batteries are manufactured to dell's standards to fit their budget and their own products .

Granted, they are free to make "better" batteries than OEM IF they wish to do so.

However, they are also "free" to use the batteries they made which turned out subpar and were not "good enough" to meet the OEM design specs.

Nothing manufactured ever comes out 100% perfect, so there is a design tolerance which is an allowable or acceptable range.

Ever wonder what happens to items that ended up on the lower spectrum just below acceptable specifications?

Not all of the items are always scrapped that do no meet specs, instead they often end up being sold at a low cost on the "grey market" in order to recoup some of the costs to make the product. It costs money to make and costs money to scrap, lost material, lost wages, companies do often try to recoup the money.

Will it last or be better? Perhaps yes, perhaps no, that is the gamble you take.

There is a reason why a lot of the aftermarket batteries are cheaper than the OEM..

No right or wrong answers to this, just a bunch of maybes..

In some cases, you might not have a choice and aftermarket is the only viable solution.