Re:KDE Slimbook
by JustSomeNobody on Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:12PM
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True. But is anyone shipping laptop with a Voltage that low? I see them up around 10.8 - 11.1.
Re:KDE Slimbook
by kogepathic on Thursday January 26, 2017 @02:34PM
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I don't know about laptops, but I would expect a lot of these "2 in 1" devices to ship with a 1 or 2 cell battery.
Tablets frequently have lower voltage batteries. The iPad 4 for example has 3 cells but they're all in parallel, so the voltage is only 4.2V.
For laptops the sweet spot seems to be 3 cells, and I'm not entirely sure why, apart from higher voltages requiring smaller traces/wires. Maybe due to the LCD backlight? The LCD from the iPad 4 actually requires ~12V for the backlight, so there's a buck boost converter somewhere on the iPad logic board for this.
IIRC the MacBook Pro has a 3 cell battery, meaning that you'll get around ~76Wh from the battery (11.2V * 6800mAh).
It's not safe to assume that all laptops will have a 3 cell battery. They might have chosen to install a 2 cell battery, in which case the capacity would only be ~50Wh (7.4V * 6800mAh). That's 35% less capacity!