Question Laptop battery vendor in the US - who would you recommend for an older model?

King_V

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Ok, so, a friend of mine has this laptop from 2016, but in nice shape. Came with Windows 10 Home, has 8GB DDR4 RAM and SATA 3. 1TB HDD (yeah, that's fun with Windows), BUT, it's an FX-9830P Definitely threw me for a loop.

The battery, however, is kaput. If I plug it in, the laptop is just fine, but it will hold ZERO charge. If I disconnect the charger, the laptop immediately shuts off. I have noticed that, if powered off, I can plug it in and the battery light turns on orange, but, eventually, starts blinking orange.

Friend of mine wants this for basic office type use.

So, I'm looking to source a battery for it. But I usually don't deal with laptops. Of course, when I looked it up, there's a whole lot of available sellers, but I don't know who is reputable.

Any suggestions?

SIDE NOTE: This is an Asus R510IU-LXFS. Here is the manual. See chapter 5 in particular. I only bring this up because this was SO WONDERFUL to look at. The battery is kind of part of the body, but literally can be removed/replaced within SECONDS! I really, REALLY love this form-factor for the battery. In addition to that, two screws on the bottom let you remove the access panel (about 1/3 of the bottom), with EASY access to the 2.5" SATA drive, and the empty memory slot. I really wish laptops were still easily serviceable like this.
 
You could look into this;
https://www.amazon.com/Laptop-Battery-A41-X550-A41-X550A-X550V/dp/B07HK52FGW
but please take off the battery on the laptop and then cross reference it with the part number mentioned in the listing linked above.

The battery is kind of part of the body, but literally can be removed/replaced within SECONDS!
Laptops from 2000 to 2018 had their battery end up being part of the laptop's design language as well as serving as a pedestal to raise the laptop a little off the desk, to allow for cooler, ambient air to enter the cooling vents(if any underneath the laptop.
 
Anything that is factory is also a dead dog at this point. All you are going to find are knock off batteries that will not perform anything as close as the original. In some cases you can get "private" individuals to build one (such as The Battery Guy) but once again, it will not be as good as that factory one was.