Laptop Batteries - Literal Ticking Time Bombs

[Rekieta’s Broken Penis]

Framework solves this problem and similar assuming the company keeps on existing.

Imagine giving money to Linus Sebastian.

 

[seri0us]

Imagine giving money to Linus Sebastian.

Linus is merely a shareholder

 

[mr_negativity]

Laptops have been shit quality in general ever since every manufacturer decided to emulate the Apple Macbook air.

Big thick laptops with full travel keys, where you can open a hatch to change out the memory, storage, wifi card, and batteries packs that eject from a bay that is what I want.

What the market is delivering now is thin laptops with chicklet style short travel keys, soldered in memory, storage, a glued in lithium polymer battery. Consumer grade is essentially trash. The thin frame can't even support the weight of the display. Business grade will now get you a build quality of what was consumer grade in 2010.

I could spend $1,000 on a new laptop, and it will break a few years because they simply are not making them like they used to. Not worth it anymore.

On the desktop side, the market has changed and there is a proliferation of micro form factor desktop PCs that have footprint smaller than a laptop. You can fit a desktop PC practically anywhere now. Every TV can now be a computer monitor. Wireless keyboards/mice are dirt cheap. People who want massive gaming rigs/towers can still get them. There is more now flexibility in a desktop PC than there was before.

For content consumption sitting in an bed/sofa, tablets have replaced laptops. Tablets are just as disposable as laptops. At least the OS is optimized for battery operation and the battery will easily last 3 years.

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

You can fit a desktop PC practically anywhere now. Every TV can now be a computer monitor.

Eh, kinda hard to take a desktop to work, let alone a tv/monitor, and portable monitors still pale in comparison to good laptop displays.

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

Recently bought a knockoff battery for my HP Elitebook. Works fine, holds charge, didn't cost me an arm and a leg. Most batteries except the ultra giga cheap ones have boards in them to prevent over/undervolting that is liable to cause a Li-Po or Li-Ion fire in the first place.

I have also never heard of anyone in my life that's had a battery explode or catch on fire. I'm sure it can happen but so can a lightning strike. I personally have had the internal battery in a work laptop (Asus) swell and cause half the keyboard to stop working, but aside from that it didn't do anything.

 

[lolcow yoghurt]

I have really considered abandoning the laptop's internal battery entirely and hooking it up to a external battery. Has anyone else tried that, and how did it go?

I hooked mine to hamster wheels. Proven effective by far.

Just bought a refurbished T480 ThinkPad for $235 off Amazon a month ago. I bought a replacement external and internal battery for it. The external is OEM and was $100. I bought this $40 internal off Amazon and it was defective. I bought another one for $100 and had no issues with it yet. It was from a company called Laptop Battery Express and they claimed they tested the battery themselves. I cleaned the keyboard with the alcohol wipes because I have done that with every keyboard I have ever owned and they keys started to turn white. It was so bad I couldn't see the letters and numbers on the keys well. Found out it was a cheap Chinese replacement for that model series of ThinkPad so I bought an OEM keyboard new in the box for $90.

I opened up the laptop myself replaced the internal battery. cleaned the inside out with some compressed air. Removed the heatsink on the CPU cleaned the old hard thermal paste off with alcohol wipes. Reapplied some new MX-4 thermal paste that won't get hard reinstalled the heatsink but I cleaned it out first with compressed air. I made sure to hold the fan so the speed of the air wouldn't damage it. I popped the cover back on. Replaced the external battery. Then replaced the keyboard and put the screws back into the back of the laptop.

Like a boss.

Theseus' laptop.

 

[BradeRunna]

I hooked mine to hamster wheels. Proven effective by far.


Theseus' laptop.

It's a pretty nice laptop. It can be opened up easily and is pretty simple to work on. It came with a 500GB SSD 16GB of RAM already installed and the intel CPU inside can be used with Windows 11.

 

[Harvey Danger]

I am in favor of legislation requiring every device manufacturer to make batteries a user-serviceable part, and also requiring OEMs to manufacture and sell batteries for a full 10 years from product launch date. I know all the arguments against this and the answer is fuck you, the benefits to society vastly outweigh the 2% hit to corporate profits.

 

[Battlefield42]

I actually want my batteries to bloat up and explode in my face. Fuck you OP

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

Laptops have been shit quality in general ever since every manufacturer decided to emulate the Apple Macbook air.

I loathe apple for creating some of the most anticonsumer trends and the tech industry for chasing those trends.

 

[King Vidiot]

I left a laptop plugged in without turning it on for too long and the stupid charging algorithm it has killed the battery. I was disturbed to find out it has no CMOS battery, so the BIOS settings don't persist if the battery dies. This is a level of cost-cutting I didn't think any computer manufacturer would resort to. At least I was able to get an OEM replacement battery for less than $20 on Ebay.

Stop charging batteries to 100% like a retard.

I set the battery charge for my newer laptops that are always plugged in to 60% to keep the batteries from wearing out. This is definitely a feature to look for if you keep your laptop plugged in all the time. Unfortunately this isn't a standard feature in all laptops. My laptop with the dead battery mentioned above is an HP from 2020 and it doesn't have any battery charge settings, so I have to remember to not leave it plugged in when I turn it off.

 

[Biker]

easy to do when you use a thinkpad.

 

[OrangeManeXTinyHatGVNG]

I fuckin wish things were more modular in almost every area, oh great lets strap the fuckin battery to the expensive device, no i have a better idea strap it to yer fuckin head!
I only recently realized that VR fags mostly dont even have a halo headstrap, they are wearing the goon googles strapped to their fucking face hahaha

like how is there not a headset i can use for vr and flying drones interchangably? why is the fuckin antenna built into the shitty headset. do you want to get aids?

 

[Pee Cola]

With replacement laptop batteries, never go for the cheapest option and don't believe a third party battery reseller when they claim to sell genuine OEM batteries.

Aftermarket batteries that are priced around half way between the absolute cheapest and an original OEM item tend to be pretty solid, at least in my experience of buying around a dozen laptop batteries or so over the past 15 years (and yes, I bought the cheapest shittiest batteries early on.. I only made that mistake once).