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

• 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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      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah to me I don’t understand it either. But that’s personal choice. Then again I’m mostly an anti laptop person. Desktops make sense to me, laptops are the laissez faire I want to be a desktop but am demanding to much mobility for a function best performed in a localized hardwired intranet environment. With video games going mostly online I feel it has brought personal computers into a more internet focused setup and less of a local install hard computing get it done space. Thus exactly what companies like Amazon/Microsoft/etc want, creating a subscription based thin/zero client with a subscription to access anything.

        Id say fuck the battery unless it’s for backup power, and still fuck it then if you don’t have your environment set up to run locally, as internet won’t work when the modems go out. Is it outdated concepts, sure… But it’s only outdated because marketing has pushed us that way in my opinion

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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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