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Re:Solid-State Battery Has 2x the Energy–and No Anode by Retric on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:36AM (#35386958)
This is a classic, it isn’t broken don’t fix it situation.

Many laptops had both a lithium ion battery and a watch battery used to keep the bios and an internal clock running after the battery died. https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/why-does-my-motherboard-have-a...

Re:Solid-State Battery Has 2x the Energy–and No Anode by Someone on Friday March 31, 2023 @11:44AM (#35388843)
That was a bit of a necessity. Users wouldn’t want their clock to reset when they swapped batteries, and you couldn’t be sure the machine was connected to a time server to set the time at boot.