Anyone ever had a swollen laptop battery?

[True Dough]

10. It's a bit of a story.

I'll try to keep it brief.

Best Buy won't touch it due to the explosion hazard.

I found an independent guy who will replace the battery. If I buy the battery through him, it's $180. I sourced one online (new and a match for my particular laptop) for $120. So I asked him if he'd install one that I found for cheaper. He said he would, but that the one-year warranty he would offer with his battery is no longer applicable. So I'll live without that warranty.

All told, with labor and taxes, it should come to a little over $200, maybe $225.

The laptop is an ASUS Rog Strix. It's a gaming laptop, even though I'm not a gamer. I splurged on it. Most expensive laptop I've owned in my life at close to $1,500. Usually I get something in the $700-$800 range. But my aunt has had two gaming laptops that have lasted her nine years and six years (so far) with no problems until the first one finally died.

So I figured I'd try that route. It hasn't gone as well for me. Besides this repair (no fault of the manufacturer on this occasion), I had to send it in for repairs twice under warranty because the keyboard was freezing/locking up on me. That problem still exists intermittently. Sometimes it resolves itself, sometimes I have to restart it.

Sigh.