Re:Repairability
by Causality1 on Monday December 28, 2020 @04:22AM
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Why are laptops being sold with insufficient power adapters then? That also sounds just flat wrong. Most non-gaming laptops have power supplies with significantly higher outputs than their maximum power draw, and the boot-up surge is incredibly tiny. I would be flatly amazed if a MacBook boot up power draw was even 10% higher than system power draw under maximum load.
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Re:Repairability
by swiftcoder on Monday December 28, 2020 @08:04AM
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MacBooks in particular use USB-C for power these days, which is currently capped at delivering 100 watts. By comparison, many gaming laptops over in the Windows side of the world ship with 180-230 watt power adaptors (using proprietary connectors).
Perhaps among other reasons, folks don't want to carry a giant adapter around with their laptop. I've seen adapters for "engineering" laptops, that seemed as big as my entire laptop.
It’s cheaper - more profit for the OEM. And booting without battery is likely considered a corner case, thus $$$
Re:Repairability
by swiftcoder on Monday December 28, 2020 @08:05AM
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Considering that the battery in a MacBook is non-removable, it's not just a corner case - it's a warranty-voiding act that the designers explicitly don't have to account for.