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.
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.