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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...
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.
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.
Not all variants, and maybe not in all markets. I will try to remember to get the SKU on it and post here.
OK. I think the 's' denotes a budget device.
Even without the 's' suffix the 420 model came in a range of configurations available.
No I meant the T430s:
Yeah I was gonna say, there has to be some ThinkPad variant that... comes pretty close to hitting these requirements.
This is definitely the issue for batteries. Anyone who flies can’t have a battery larger than 100Wh.
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.
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.
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€.
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.