"It's the biggest battery you can get on a plane"

[7412]

I wish manufacturers would disregard this entirely and make laptops for filthy nerds who don't traval far and just want maximum battery life for work and college.

[minibois]

Or... OR! Hear me out.. They make it so users can swap out their battery for a smaller unit if they want to make it airplane 'compatible'..

But let's be honest - aren't we filthy nerds always within 2 hours of an outlet and thus able to charge the battery quite often..?

[mariushm]

4 minutes ago, 7412 said:

I wish manufacturers would disregard this entirely and make laptops for filthy nerds who don't traval far and just want maximum battery life for work and college.

Or you can buy a usb battery bank, a 20000mAh usb thing is equivalent to 100Ah of battery. There's even usb power banks with inverters built in, if the laptop can't charge directly from usb.

 

Manufacturers also limit the battery due to weight and due to thickness a bigger battery would bring. Not everyone needs more than 8-12 hours of battery.

[Eigenvektor]

1 minute ago, mariushm said:

A 20000mAh usb thing is equivalent to 100Ah of battery.

20,000 mAh is 20 Ah in my book (m = milli = 1/1000th), how do you get 100 Ah from that?

[mariushm]

9 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

20,000 mAh is 20 Ah in my book (m = milli = 1/1000th), how do you get 100 Ah from that?

I meant Wh ... 20 Ah x 5v = 100 Wh

[RasmusDC]

i would love a Low power laptop usage laptop with a giant battery the best i could get were the Lenovo X models, with the "extra" modular battery a couple of years back, that used the dock connector, gave 17 hours of battery life, with a decent usage of ressources.

 

remember my old T40SXGA+ after my T30, where i had removed the cd-rom drive modular bay, and used it for the extra battery, actually back i tried to use USB sticks as much as possible even though the size were limited. and as an "school" work pc, the software suite were quite standard, the office license, an inventor license, and winamp.

[LogicalDrm]

Yeah... Expect 3 week+ shipping times on those from Taiwan to where ever you want to start using it.

[7412]

So that laptop manufacturers don't see the point in limiting the battery capacity and we can get better battery life through sheer battery size?

 

I say you should.

[Lorant]

Then you'll have larger laptops.  Everyone wants small and sleek.

 

Make up your minds

 

And wtf is that about planes?

[minibois]

40 minutes ago, 7412 said:

So that laptop manufacturers don't see the point in limiting the battery capacity and we can get better battery life through sheer battery size?

 

I say you should.

This is one of those scenarios where I know all individual words, but don't know how they form to create a full thread

 

my person, what are you trying to tell us?

is this about laptops limiting their battery size to be allowed on airplanes?

having a universal standard for batteries, having them be removable and then just selling larger batteries would solve this.

but that is just something no manufacturer would do, it doesn't make financial sense.

[Fasauceome]

the word that doesn't fit is "taking"

 

Maybe you should _____ planes

 

what could this mean

[Kilrah]

Probably a missing "not be".

 

But yeah, much more than the air travel limitation it's the size and weight that reduces the appeal for large batteries.

[flashiling]

1 minute ago, doertedev said:

Your job as a vendor is to please your board of investors not your customers.

well you can't please the investors if noone is buying your stuff and unless you've got "status" like Iphones (just an example no need to start attacking)

[Touch My Hamm]

If only they used a standard removable battery then in theory you could purchase a bigger one and have a weird tumor sticking out the back of your laptop. But that would be a reasonable thing to do and that doesnt make it all proprietary. Not to say every manufacturer makes it own stuff for the purpose of being difficult lol. 

[greenhorn]

Are you talking about the max capacity for batteries to be allowed on a plane? Airlines always want to minimize risks and you have to take into account that there have been many accidents and incidents relating to lithium-ion batteries (both in form of battery as cargo and batteries in passengers' personal devices).
I even heard that there are special procedures required if a passenger wants to bring his electric, battery-powered wheelchair on board (battery has to be disconnected and secured, some personnel is trained for that kind of procedure).

Maybe we will sometime in the future have less dangerous battery technologies that still offer a large enough energy density, then those restrictions might be lifted.
 

[TVwazhere]

-Threads merged, Moved to Laptops and Pre Builts-