While all this talk about Smartphone battery replacement is happening, nobody seems to ever talk about the laptop batteries these days also being a hassle to replace.
While all this talk about Smartphone battery replacement is happening, nobody seems to ever talk about the laptop batteries these days also being a hassle to replace.
I don’t care that much, if one is strictly speaking talking about removability, given current battery lifetimes.
But I do care a lot about size.
Batteries that are removable and extend out of the case are amenable to being replaced with larger batteries. Vendors don’t do that these days, since batteries are generally internal.
Also, US flight restrictions permit for more than 100Wh batteries in a device if they’re removed – the Toughbook can do this. So one can run 200Wh with a laptop with two 100Wh removable battery slots. Can’t do that with fixed batteries.
So there are some very real potential capacity benefits to removable batteries.