Comment on Should I replace my laptop battery, and are third-party batteries safe?

• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are we going to tell him to crack open the pack and replace the individual cells that go bad, it’s usually safe with decent soldering, and an average volt/ohm meter to verify.

  No.

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• solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Laptops nowadays almost always use pouch cells.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Honestly that just sounds worse. Why not use universal individually replaceable components unless you are trying to make a have to buy from us unique product

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      1. Customers demand thinner laptops, standard cells won’t fit.
      2. on HP and Dell’s professional laptops you can fairly easily replace the battery, they even publish service manuals with pictures showing how to do it.

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      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        So you are pro proprietary items, anti universal parts? I just think it’s a bad choice overall. I understand they make a battery wrap around components to make it fit, but overall I think it hurts the consumer

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    • DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Precisely. Sadly, that’s not a decision made by anyone that would frequent this comment section.

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