Opinion: How Apple could have prevented the iPhone-slowdown controversy

Re:Opinion: How Apple could have prevented the iPhone-slowdo... by Dylan16807 on Saturday December 23, 2017 @01:19PM (#15995433)

Most laptops with dedicated GPUs can drain their battery quite a bit faster than a phone can, but they don't exhibit instability on batteries nearly this young.

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Re:Opinion: How Apple could have prevented the iPhone-slowdo... by jws on Saturday December 23, 2017 @01:40PM (#15995534)

Without making the example too complex, it is the instantaneous peaks which get you in trouble. You could have your average power consumption approach 2C (totally discharged in two hours) and be just fine, that is the specified maximum for discharging something like a standard 18650 lithium cell. It is the surge that is going to cause an unacceptable voltage drop.

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Re:Opinion: How Apple could have prevented the iPhone-slowdo... by Dylan16807 on Saturday December 23, 2017 @03:52PM (#15996197)

So, tiny capacitor?

And I don't mean discharged in two hours, I mean discharged in 40 minutes when you keep it at max usage. Faster than a phone.

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Re:Opinion: How Apple could have prevented the iPhone-slowdo... by brigade on Saturday December 23, 2017 @04:55PM (#15996461)

If phones had active cooling and could thermally sustain a maximum CPU+GPU load for 40 minutes, they would discharge that fast or faster.

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