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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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