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Re:Charging a lithium battery to 80% only? by another2another on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @07:57AM (#38363054)
My colleague just had to replace his HP Elitebook Notebook because the battery had bulged so much it had cracked open the case.

For this to be happening in 2023 means that some manufacturers at least, seem to be not managing this potential problem at all.

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Re:Charging a lithium battery to 80% only? by thfuran on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:28AM (#38363323)
N=1 doesn't really tell you much of anything about anything.
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Re:Charging a lithium battery to 80% only? by bayindirh on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @09:18AM (#38363915)
Well, my wife's work supplied EliteBook's battery has been replaced today due to excessive swallowing, and it's definitely younger than my 2014 MacBook Pro.
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Re:Charging a lithium battery to 80% only? by mrguyorama on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @12:24PM (#38366796)
An entire production run of Macbook Pro 2015s had to be recalled and replaced because the batteries were inflating and bursting into flames.
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Re:Charging a lithium battery to 80% only? by bayindirh on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @12:59PM (#38367325)
...and Samsung recalled two series of their flagship phones to replace their batteries, and fail (and cancel the model altogether). Because of their failure, planes started and still continue to announce phone charging related security measures during take-off.

Every company makes big mistakes. Also Apple once built laptops with self-cooking GPUs, a couple ones very fragile keyboards, a series with too-sensitive screen coatings.

We can write tons of problems with every producer. The most important metric is whether they're learning from that or not. As far as I can see Samsung and Apple learnt their lessons.

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