When given this question to any laptop or notebook computer user, they will get puzzled. This happens to me once when someone ask me about my laptop battery. As you can see, before you replace your laptop battery it is quite important to know a bit on the back ground first. There are several types of laptop batteries which I will share in this post.

Types of Laptop Batteries:

1. Alkaline - This is one of the common batteries around but only few laptops used it and the flaw about alkaline batteries is that is not rechargeable. You have to throw it once it goes flat.

In my previous installment of Understanding Battery Life we reviewed what battery life means; how battery life is measured; what factors determine and impact battery life; and finally when do batteries begin to lose life. In part 2 of Understanding Battery Life we will look at a battery’s internal design. A battery design is an important foundation on understanding battery life because of the fact that a battery is a consumable product (a batteries internal chemical is consumed upon activation) and that this consumption shortens the batteries life over time.

The arrival of netbooks it has many a desk bound workers are free from the confines of an office. Providing on the go computing in a lightweight package netbooks are growing in popularity - supported by its modest cost.

Netbooks, but have their limits. Screen size is often much smaller than you to get on a laptop, let alone a full-size PC, so it's not the practical choice if you plan to be on the use of the kitchen table. It also has alow storage capacity. You will not be able to store vast amounts of information and programs on the average netbook, but you can use the applications you need to run the most.

Specifications: The HP Mini 311 is currently one of the latest netbook models in the market. Instead of the traditional 10.1-inch design, the netbook has a 11.6-inch screen instead. The netbook is equipped with a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 Processor, 1 GB DDR3 RAM, 160GB hard drive and Windows XP operating system. The highlight of the new model would be their screen in any case. It is an HD LED-backlit screen with a resolution 1366 x 768 To make the best out of this HD screen, this netbook alsoION LE has an NVIDIA graphics processor, which is found very rarely in netbook models.