• So how’s your battery?

    Posted on September 21, 2024 at 23:01 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Once upon a time, you could snap a dead battery out of the back of a laptop and replace it with a new one ordered online and be back up and running in nothing flat.  And then came the era of smaller, lighter and now it’s a matter of prying the back of a laptop off without breaking something in the process to see if it’s replaceable.

    I have a Chromebook that I use to dabble in the Chrome ecosystem and suddenly it will not hold a charge or BE charged. So yes, I have a totally worthless cloud based laptop. Fortunately I didn’t pay much for it, but still it’s a bit annoying to now have a device that I will have to decide if I want to pry the back off or ewaste it.

    Another laptop that I have at the office is annoying me in the battery department for a different reason. It’s relatively new. It’s a Lenovo based on the snapdragon chip and is supposed to have a really long life. But because we use it as more of an emergency device, it can sit in a drawer for weeks. When I go to use it, it’s totally dead and needs recharging a bit before it will even boot. Upon searching online, it appears others are having the same issue and hopefully updating the bios should do the trick.  Fingers cross.

    What’s the most annoying thing you’ve had to deal with when it comes to batteries?

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