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laptop rule (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by [M] to c/196@lemmy.world
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[–] 17 points 8 months ago* (12 children)

For the battery issue, how much of that is just because they want to stay under the 100Wh mark for shipping in the US?

https://www.winmate.com/en/Product/L140TG-3

Also, apparently dual hot-swappable battery laptops have existed...

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Also, apparently dual hot-swappable battery laptops have existed...

    Indeed, I still hold on to my trusty ThinkPad T420 for that reason (and the excellent Linux support). Two batteries can be used at the same time, one of them hot-swappable.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    The T420 has dual batteries? Weird, my T430s (not recommended btw, but I got it for free) doesn't have those. My x250 has dual batteries though.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Not all variants, and maybe not in all markets. I will try to remember to get the SKU on it and post here.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    OK. I think the 's' denotes a budget device.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    My Compaq Armada 1500c has dual removable batteries and a removable floppy drive. The batteries can be lithium or NiMH.

    The 800x600 active matrix LCD was a bit of a drawback as the years went by. Most of the websites I made back then are a bit small today.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I never understood why that didn't take off more, like even when you "could* swap out a phone battery for example (miss you old xiaomi 2 & 5 !) it wasn't hot swappable, even a condensator+some quick deep sleep could probably let you do it if you're fast smh.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Probably because people don't use their laptops when they're mobile as much as you'd think. Spending an additional 100-150€ on a second battery will seem expensive, even when the laptop just cost 1-2k€.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    In my dream world you'd pop in and out 18650 batteries in slots on the backside ☺️ a proprietary system would probably be cost prohibitive. For a mobile they had lots of similar flat batteries, and cheap too, but that was then I guess.

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