New with fault??? That's a new one :confused:

No guarantee it's a faulty/old battery; could be the charging circuit.

Seems very strange to have so many with precisely the same fault.

brand new battery you can get for £20 or less

Few medion laptops have same model

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LAPTOP-BATTERY-4400mAh-black-for-Medion-MD97102-MD97226-MD97228-/262884725956?_trksid=p2385738.m2548.l4275

I'm pretty sure that they would simply replace the battery and sell it for a lot more if that was the only issue

I have just noticed that says only work when charger is plugged in, so not as great a deal. New batteries can be purchased separately by the looks of the ebay page.

Still not too bad though

Bit of a weird issue to have so many laptops that only work when charged in?

HOT

My laptop is always plugged in with the battery removed

I bought a tablet from them for £30, it was a brick in an hour, just kept bluescreening.
When I was returning it they woudl only communicate outside of ebay messaging and were insisting on collecting the item instead of me posting it back - it seemed suspicious so returned it via post as ebay told me to and the return was fine, though I am concerned what would have happened had I not done that

Might make a good Kodi machine, should play 4k ok

How much is a brand new battery?

£36

I'm pretty sure that they would simply replace the battery and sell it for a lot more if that was the only issue

Any ideas on how easy to upgrade the ram n HDD? Can't find any pics of base.

Any link to new battery?

How much space will be left on this after windows 10. Sorry not used windows for nearly a decade. But was thinking for photo shop etc or windows apps

brand new battery you can get for £20 or less

Few medion laptops have same model

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LAPTOP-BATTERY-4400mAh-black-for-Medion-MD97102-MD97226-MD97228-/262884725956?_trksid=p2385738.m2548.l4275

good price for what it is

Whats the processor like also ssd is only 32 gb.... wont have much space left after windows 10

None of the links work

Check out the the 3rd link for the replacement batteries on the listing, it gives a Michael Jackson 404 error :laughing:

Anyone tried a cheeky lower offer?

As somebody stated here already - how simple just to replace the battery.
It strikes me that there is more than an 'only works when plugged in issue'.

I bet buying a new battery would not solve the issue.

But what do I know?

The 2 ebay links for batterys are not suitable. This needs a clevo w310 battery.

No guarantee it's a faulty/old battery; could be the charging circuit.

Seems very strange to have so many with precisely the same fault.

£20 postage!!!

So basically they've put best offer on so it gets shown in more searches but have no intention of accepting any lower offer.

Pet peeve of mine when sellers do that, petty I know but it annoys me.

£60 isn't a massive amount but it's only got a 3 month warranty plus I'd have to spend our for a battery if I actually wanted it to be portable.

New with fault??? That's a new one :confused:

I'm waiting for them to be OOS so I'm no longer tempted. Already spent 100's on a Superdry sale today and bought a tablet last week and another yesterday! Bank account is being rinsed

By "SSD" do they mean MMC, the same stuff that comes in the awful cheap Windows tablets?

Buy a 10" netbook (running windows) on Ebay for similar money. Fully working lots of storage space. Dual core atom. 2-4 gigs of ram etc. Voted cold

An awful computer at a belting price :smile: Hot!

So now even faulty laptops are becoming hot deals? Too many just seeing the title and clicking hot.

If it was just the battery that was faulty it would be a simple swap and the laptops would be much easier to sell.
Working with Dell laptops, if a laptop has this issue and swapping in a known good battery doesn't work, then likely it is the charging circuits on the motherboard that have failed - that requires a motherboard replacement, which on a cheap laptop is an instant write off in terms of costs. That is more likely the issue that would prompt selling like this. the laptop will work when plugged in with the charger, but try to use it off power and it will die instantly.

MSATA according to here:
https://www.lambda-tek.com/Zoostorm-7270-9062~sh/B4750714

Although I'm not 100% convinced

Would this be good for gaming?, probably a stupid question but just wanting to know

Great for pac man probably :smile:

Some people only require it to work plugged in and it's a non-issue then

Thats what i thought :laughing: , i was wanting to play minesweeper on it, oh well, thanks for saving me £60 Sclub :stuck_out_tongue:

This will actually cost £100 when you factor in £20 postage and £20 battery (which may not even work)

So can we put a 2.5 inch ssd in this ?

where does it say £20 postage ? mine says free

£20 postage? It says fast&free on the ebay page, unless i'm being stupid!

Cpubenchmark of 1740 which for the money is pretty decent compared to low end 10" and 11" laptops. I'm also not convinced it's as easy as replacing the battery.

Great price......but there is obviously more to it.

"Laptop is brand new but it only works when charger is plugged in".

It doesn't say if you buy a battery it will work if not plugged in. What it is doing is linking you to batteries making you think it will work on battery.

all gone

Mains only = Should be called a desktop PC then.:smile:

Good saved me buying one and thinking afterwards why did I do that!

Also 304 sold it was saying more than 10 available at that time so wonder why it was really ended.

Are the arrows manipulated or are people here really so thick that they voted it hot?

I got one of these full price and it also had a dead battery. Contacted them and they replaced it without any quibble. Changing the battery was as easy as pie, two spring clips and it just comes out.
Like all laptops that I have seen.

dual core 1.6 Ghz, quite sprightly I think

Saved me £60

Could u plz recommend one? I've been after a replacement after my ex best friend stole it off me!

You can still use it on your lap :smiley:

Back on now and the listing states that a new battery WILL fix the issue! Heat from me following that clarification! :smiley:

New link http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Zoostorm-Touch-Screen-11-6-Laptop-Intel-1037U-4-GB-RAM-32-GB-SSD-Win-10-/262862174960?hash=item3d33ce7af0:g:6JcAAOSwA29Y4lD6

Zoostorm have these 32GB m.sata drives sale separately, i wonder if that's what is inside? If so, specs look good:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262862193999?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Nice, thanks SClub, just ordered

Beat me to it. I just missed this first time around so did a snoop around on their ebay profile and found the new listing too.

Needed something cheap and cheerful to play around with.

Has anyone found a battery yet?

If a new battery will fix it, why haven't they stuck a new battery and sold it as working? It makes me think they are at best unprofessional and at worst fraudulent. Stay away!

See post #54.

I've had a good experience of Zoostorm support recently - they fixed a dead screen on my GT8 in its last days of warranty, and it was pretty swift.

I want this but I reeeaally don't need it...

Also, I don't understand why they wouldn't just pop a new battery in and sell it as not faulty. ..

Interesting that it's now been relisted with the description saying faulty battery and a new one will fix it.

No links on the description to a battery though and if you google W310VAT-4 no results for a battery.

I couldnt resist in the end

MSATA according to here:
https://www.lambda-tek.com/Zoostorm-7270-9062~sh/B4750714

I will open it up later and have a look.

It's a very nice system for the price paid and it's definitely brand new. I'm happy with it

20GB free / 28.5GB total on SSD after OS for anyone interested

Or they are a large business (4th biggest computer manufacturer, so yeah) and buying hundreds of batteries and testing is worth less to them than the time taken / shelf space / etc when compared to the difference of selling for full price

It's a typo should be W310BAT-4

They are around £40 for replacement because they're pretty scarce it seems

Still bad business practice. I'll stay away.

Fair enough. Looks like the batteries are pretty rare & hard to track down so that may be another reason why they didn't bother

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-New-Genuine-14-8V-2800mAh-41-44WH-W310BAT-4-battery-for-Clevo-6-87/32387130386.html

with 8% TCB = approx £29 delivered

best I can find so far

20-40 days delivery though

Thanks, thought it might be a problem getting a battery.

Just got mine looks really nice,took the msata 32gb out and put a 120gb ssd in and installing anniversary edition of windows 10 home, as someone who uses main power mostly this is an absolute bargain for me ! Cheers OP

Care to share how easy that was?
Looks like the whole back has to come off.
Any pictures / tips for the rest of us please?

Did anybody try a new battery?

my one broken down already,pc is working but no picture,display is just dark.

Is it working now, any update on your issue. Thanks

i will return it,

ordered from aliexpress on 7th april and arrived yesterday 29th.. All good I charging now to 100% and we will see how is it. manufacture date is 2014/02
I will use program BtteryBar to check how long will stay on battery.

Any recommendations for places to get a battery from please ?