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Batteries do discharge slowly as they sit on the shelf, awaiting a sale. I've been in stores that have batteries that've sat for a year or more. The recommendation is to ignore/don't buy a battery that's been sitting on the shelf for more than 6 months.
Most places will call a battery 'new' if it hasn't been removed from its original packaging, which unfortunately won't help you because batteries begin to degrade at manufacture. I have purchased a few 'new' batteries for a very old (2007-era) laptop and even though they are OEM and in original unopened packaging, are all dead.
napa takes care of my needs/warranties. When I buy a dozen, or maybe 20+ batteries some yrs, it's nice to buy them all at the same place for warranty. I also find them to be 10-20% cheaper than other places. I have a honda odyssey that ate up two OEM batteries in 6 yrs that I just replaced about 10 months ago with a napa legend. curious to see ...
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Cheapest *legit* place is probably holding out until it there's a sale on newegg, tigerdirect, microcenter, etc. Otherwise it's always going to be a few bucks within MSRP, especially for Pro. Unfortunately the only real discounts on Acrobat are in bulk licensing.
Another vote for Costco, they are JC batteries and go for about $75, but you get $9 back when you turn in your old battery. All my cars have Costco batteries currently and they all perform great. If you want a real high end battery look at Odyssey but be prepared to pay through the nose.
Toshiba (edit: not Lenovo) died a few months later, so I cracked open the pack. 2200mAh cells! Seller advertises "only use major lithium manufacturer cells". They were the generic private wrapped shvt no different from anything you can buy on AliExpress. Searching the imprinted part # turned up nothing. So I basically paid $35 for a $20 battery ...
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They're as common as AAs and AAAs, just look around the battery section of your favorite place to buy batteries. If for some weird reason the motherboard in question uses a different size, just keep the battery. Plenty of stuff uses CR2032s.
Google the part number and you’ll find plenty of vendors carrying OEM and generic replacements like Notebookparts and Batteries N Accessories. A lot of times I’ve just matched the size of the cheapest one I’ve found from any OEM, they tend to all share the same 2 pin socket.