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

• 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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      • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        There are plenty times when custom solutions are better than generic ones.

        Weather or not this is one such time can be debated.

        All I noted in my last post was to explain reality.

        Generic battery cells in laptops have been dead for a many years now.

        Customers won’t accept a laptop thick enough to fit a battery of 18650 cells anymore.

        I recently ordered a high power workstation for a user, a Zbook with a U9 cpu and 64GB of ram, that was just maybe 5mm thicker than the normal EliteBook 840 we buy, and holy shit, it felt really old when carrying it.

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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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