I have a ThinkPad X220 that recently turned 13, with SSD and RAM upgrades, basic maintenance, and Linux it’s still running great for plenty of tasks.
Plus it’s so well built I could probably stick it in a plate carrier and use it as body armour. Doesn’t seem to matter how much it gets dropped or dropped onto, ol’ Thinky keeps on chugging.
I had an x201 that I sold on to pay for my now “current” (ha) OG Thinkpad Yoga. Sometimes I do miss that old brick.
Sure, it only had two point touch instead of 10… But it got 11 hours of battery life with the extended (swappable!) pack, a daylight readable display, built in GPS, a fingerprint reader that actually worked, and if anyone tried to steal your laptop you could just hit them with it.
I mean, I don’t know if the 100Wh limitation is specifically reasonable, but I’ve seen lithium battery fires before, and they’re pretty exciting. Fires on airplanes are pretty bad news. They probably had to have some kind of cap.
You can carry an additional 100Wh battery or power bank, which I do, so if laptop vendors would actually make laptops with 100Wh batteries, that’s 200Wh that can be at least with you, albeit not all internal. And you can carry larger powerstations if you aren’t actually flying.
In theory, laptop vendors could do that old Thinkpad route of having batteries that extended outside the case and make them as large as they wanted…you’d just have to fly with a smaller one.
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I have a ThinkPad X220 that recently turned 13, with SSD and RAM upgrades, basic maintenance, and Linux it’s still running great for plenty of tasks.
Plus it’s so well built I could probably stick it in a plate carrier and use it as body armour. Doesn’t seem to matter how much it gets dropped or dropped onto, ol’ Thinky keeps on chugging.
I had an x201 that I sold on to pay for my now “current” (ha) OG Thinkpad Yoga. Sometimes I do miss that old brick.
Sure, it only had two point touch instead of 10… But it got 11 hours of battery life with the extended (swappable!) pack, a daylight readable display, built in GPS, a fingerprint reader that actually worked, and if anyone tried to steal your laptop you could just hit them with it.
The removal of the large and removable batteries from the newer models in the Thinkpad line is one of my major annoyances with Lenovo.
I love my T580, internal and external batteries, quad-core goodness. Many, many years left in it.
All the same, I still hate the US FAA? for limiting laptop batteries to 100Wh, dick move and everyone goes along…
I mean, I don’t know if the 100Wh limitation is specifically reasonable, but I’ve seen lithium battery fires before, and they’re pretty exciting. Fires on airplanes are pretty bad news. They probably had to have some kind of cap.
You can carry an additional 100Wh battery or power bank, which I do, so if laptop vendors would actually make laptops with 100Wh batteries, that’s 200Wh that can be at least with you, albeit not all internal. And you can carry larger powerstations if you aren’t actually flying.
In theory, laptop vendors could do that old Thinkpad route of having batteries that extended outside the case and make them as large as they wanted…you’d just have to fly with a smaller one.