BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop

Re:BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop by ShakataGaNai on Thursday January 02, 2020 @11:35AM (#21936821)

Maybe a decade or so ago this would be a good answer. But unless you're one of those ThinkPad people who are still pulling for the X220 to make a come back.... A majority of modern laptops don't have user removable batteries.

Yes, they could still be removed in some cases, but its often not for the feint of heart and not something many people would want to undertake.

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Re:BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop by war1025 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @08:06PM (#21941923)

Is it really the majority? Or just on macbooks and the high end lines like that? I didn't think my laptops were that old (3-5 years) and they all have removable batteries.

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Re:BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop by perl4ever on Friday January 03, 2020 @01:23AM (#21943746)

I hadn't thought about it, but I have a newish business class Dell and I don't think it does have a removable battery. On the other hand, I have a Dell laptop from circa 2011 and it does; in fact I got the extra large one that sticks out awkwardly.

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Re:BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday January 02, 2020 @12:22PM (#21937390)

> A majority of modern laptops don't have user removable batteries.

Yet another major regression in the state of computing since the 90s.

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