Travel Technology - serious defect in my IBM Thinkpad X31?

When the X31 is docked, the internal battery sits right where it gets very hot.

LiIon batteries don't do well with heat. I have encountered a serious degradation in batter performance already, and I haven't owned this baby perhaps 6 months.

Anyone else have this issue? I am thinking about how to approach IBM about it. The auxiliary batter does not suffer this problem as it does not work when you have the laptop docked, only when the laptop is not docked.

Does it get hot and stay hot for hours, or is hot only for the few hours it's charging? If it's when it's charging then it's probably OK, but if it never stops charging then there may be a problem.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by cordelli:
Does it get hot and stay hot for hours, or is hot only for the few hours it's charging? If it's when it's charging then it's probably OK, but if it never stops charging then there may be a problem.</font>


the battery is always in the computer and the computer is normally docked, which is when the battery is in the position where it gets quite hot. Basically all the time except when I have the laptop on a trip or away from my desk.

I had the same issue with a Toshiba and now an Apple notebook... Arghh! Would be nice to have a way to force the charge system OFF on notebooks like this yet still run on AC (hey, old NEC's did this)

i had an x31 - same prob, more so as no dock station - didnt affect performance