Laptop explodes while charging at Letchworth business

Re:Laptop explodes while charging at Letchworth business by bhhaskin on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:52PM (#16737910)

Just change the external scale. 75% is now 100%. Users are none the wiser and battery life is prolonged.

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Re:Laptop explodes while charging at Letchworth business by wlesieutre on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:08PM (#16738085)

Then your competitor with the same battery cells says 85% is the new 100% and now they have longer battery life than you do.

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Re:Laptop explodes while charging at Letchworth business by ericd on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:28PM (#16738301)

And then maybe your competitor gets an announcement on every plane reminding people not to buy their product :-)

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Re:Laptop explodes while charging at Letchworth business by kqr on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:23AM (#16742785)

No, because again, this is not about preventing batteries from exploding. They already shouldn't explode. This is purely to give them a longer lifespan – which is not that attractive to producers, who I assume want to sell more batteries.

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Re:Laptop explodes while charging at Letchworth business by ericd on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:44PM (#16748940)

Ah yep, didn't read the thread carefully enough.

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Re:Laptop explodes while charging at Letchworth business by tomn on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:00PM (#16738010)

Or maybe they'll buy the competing product that has 25% more runtime, or is 25% thinner, or is 10% cheaper etc.

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Re:Laptop explodes while charging at Letchworth business by kickopotomus on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:05PM (#16738054)

Most smart battery chargers do this. 0% is not really 0% and 100% is not really 100%.

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Re:Laptop explodes while charging at Letchworth business by mtVessel on Monday April 02, 2018 @04:49PM (#16739133)

This one goes to eleven.

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