I will be replacing my 10 year old Windows 10 laptop when Office 2010 goes end-of-life. I'm thinking of buying refurbished, however, most laptops today come with internal batteries. If I get one where the battery goes toes up can the battery be replaced easily (similar to replacing a battery in your iPhone)? If so, what does this usually run (ballpark)? Thanks.

batteries plus will have the best prices.

i've got 2 older dell laptops & by turning over, the battery's easy to get out.

All of our company laptops are Dell (Latitude series typically). Very easy battery replacement, occasionally requiring removing the bottom shell/cover to access (just a screw & connector to remove once that's done).
Same with hard drives & RAM, easy swaps. We actually ordered a batch downgraded (500GB platter drives & 4GB RAM) so we could get them quicker & upgraded them to SSD & added RAM in house.

Thanks folks. Your answers plus YouTube got me what I needed to know. Dells look easier to work on than HP.

So long as you stay with Dell or Lenovo business class laptops you should be fine. I personally wouldn't touch a HP laptop with a ten foot pole.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
So long as you stay with Dell or Lenovo business class laptops you should be fine. I personally wouldn't touch a HP laptop with a ten foot pole.

That's funny as I wouldn't touch a Lenovo business class laptop with a ten foot pole. Too many seem to have a mind of their own.

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Originally posted by lumbering.buffalo:

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
So long as you stay with Dell or Lenovo business class laptops you should be fine. I personally wouldn't touch a HP laptop with a ten foot pole.

That's funny as I wouldn't touch a Lenovo business class laptop with a ten foot pole. Too many seem to have a mind of their own.

We had 1 Lenovo desktop that was provided with a piece of equipment. It started having issues & was a pain to troubleshoot (probably in part to us being all-in on Dell). We ended up replacing it with a Dell Optiplex (and the vendor that originally supplied it has dropped Lenovo for Dell as well).

I replaced the battery on my 6 year old Toshiba a couple of months ago, wasn’t too bad. Certainly something that anyone reasonably handy can do.