this post was submitted on 22 May 2024
1358 points (98.8% liked)

Comic Strips

12550 readers
3583 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

But it got 11 hours of battery life with the extended (swappable!) pack

The removal of the large and removable batteries from the newer models in the Thinkpad line is one of my major annoyances with Lenovo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I love my T580, internal and external batteries, quad-core goodness. Many, many years left in it.

All the same, I still hate the US FAA? for limiting laptop batteries to 100Wh, dick move and everyone goes along...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I mean, I don't know if the 100Wh limitation is specifically reasonable, but I've seen lithium battery fires before, and they're pretty exciting. Fires on airplanes are pretty bad news. They probably had to have some kind of cap.

You can carry an additional 100Wh battery or power bank, which I do, so if laptop vendors would actually make laptops with 100Wh batteries, that's 200Wh that can be at least with you, albeit not all internal. And you can carry larger powerstations if you aren't actually flying.

In theory, laptop vendors could do that old Thinkpad route of having batteries that extended outside the case and make them as large as they wanted...you'd just have to fly with a smaller one.