Did you know: the reason you can't seem to buy a laptop with more than 100Wh battery capacity, is that 100Wh is the maximum battery capacity permitted by various air travel regulations and so every manufacturer sets this as a hard design limit for all of their models regardless of whether the laptop will ever actually be brought onto a plane or not
@joepie91 If only they still made batteries that large ... It seems that as devices grow more power efficient, manufacturers scale down battery capacity instead of allowing for more runtime :/
@korenchkin I did buy a laptop somewhat recently-ish (couple years ago) with almost the full 100Wh battery capacity; it was a new x270 with internal battery and the extended external battery option. So dual-battery (hotswappable) and it totalled up to something like 96Wh.
I did get that laptop specifically for its absurd power efficiency; I can easily use it a whole day at a conference without charging even once.
@joepie91 yeah, I'm currently using an x260, but it seems they don't really make them like this anymore
i hope laptops will switch to salt batteries in the near future and because of that, those air travel restrictions get dropped and thus ppl can even bring electric vehicles on board 🙂
salt batteries are almost as good as the lithium ones. i cant wait for that
@joepie91 Need to bring back the extra detachable “battery backpacks” that used to be available for HP enterprise laptops. Gave you what amounted to a small stand for better thermals, *and* better battery life.