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

• 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 Is it outdated concepts, sure… But it’s only outdated because marketing has pushed us that way in my opinion

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      • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        My mina home computer will allways be a desktop, though I do like a laptop as a complement.

        In general I don’t want batteries in everything, I am very weary of lithium batteries after having seen videos of them going pop.

        I have thought about building a dedicated charging cabinet, devided into separate charging lockers, with active cooling of the bottom plate in every locker.

        I am concerned everytime I buy a new light for my camera setup, as I like the fexibillity of an integrated battery, but don’t trust the brand to know if it is safe.

        I would love to have a carging cabinet as described above…

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