I Am Seriously Considering Going Back to Desktop Computers (2020)

Re:I Am Seriously Considering Going Back to Desktop Computer... by Moru on Monday April 04, 2022 @04:00PM (#30911334)

My first run-in with this was a customer that complained that their computer was slow. When I had a look at it, it was an HP laptop about 10 years ago. While booting I noticed a funny message in the direction of "For full capacity please buy this external power supply from HP". Looked at the power lump and it was about 60 W and the computer had a bad battery so could not keep up at all. They sell expensive laptops and expect you to throw away the power supply and buy a new one?

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Re:I Am Seriously Considering Going Back to Desktop Computer... by falcolas on Monday April 04, 2022 @04:37PM (#30911666)

Yeah, I've seen it justified (by users) as "most of the time I don't need the full capacity and I don't want to pay for that extra capacity when the battery can make up for it".

A lot of assumptions wrapped up in such statements - one of which is the one you found: Batteries are typically among the first components to die.

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Re:I Am Seriously Considering Going Back to Desktop Computer... by Moru on Monday April 04, 2022 @05:17PM (#30912037)

I always used to unplug the battery when I'm not traveling so it would last longer. Can't do that any more if you need it the whole time.

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Re:I Am Seriously Considering Going Back to Desktop Computer... by nyanpasu64 on Monday April 04, 2022 @11:07PM (#30914899)

Nowadays batteries are non-removable and sometimes even soldered in. I miss old laptops.

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Re:I Am Seriously Considering Going Back to Desktop Computer... by Moru on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @01:27AM (#30915574)

They still exist but you have to look for them specifically. Usually gaming laptops around 4 kg though :-)

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