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IBM ThinkPad 380 and 385 Battery Replacement

This guide is by Cooper Quintrall on iFixit and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0. ByteRot mirrors it for non-commercial preservation: formatting changed and photos resized for old browsers; full-size photos and the text are on the FTP in /DOCS/REPAIR. Original guide >>

The battery is perhaps the easiest component to replace here. No screws required.

Tools: Spudger

Step 1 :: Flip the ThinkPad over.

• Weighing in at an enormous 7 and a half pounds, this big black brick is definitely one of the thickest of the ThinkPad line.

Step 2 :: The Battery Release Tab

• Pull the battery tab up and forward.
• (You can also just follow the printed instructions on the battery itself.)

Step 3 :: Pull the Battery out.

• Pull the battery out.
• You may have to pull quite firmly to get it to budge.

Conclusion

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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