My laptop is always either plugged into a dock at work, or plugged into a dock or just a power supply at home. I feel like there's an untapped market for 'same laptop, but slightly cheaper because there's no battery in it at all'.
replyLike you say most windows laptops have such garbage battery life already that it's not practical to use them unplugged.
> 'same laptop, but slightly cheaper because there's no battery in it at all'
replySo, a simple computer? You can even choose your keyboard, mouse and screens.
Not the same - I still want to be able to just use and carry round the one thing without needing a monitor, mouse, keyboard etc at every single location, but I basically never need to use it somewhere where there isn't a wall socket available.
replyIt seems ridiculous on the surface, since you'd think you'd just buy a desktop or something, but with a laptop with no battery, and hypothetically better everything else, it would eliminate the need for a bunch of other peripherals
replyKind of an interesting idea. Only the portability but none of the mobile computing capability.
replyIt does kind of seem like, outside a few select models, the PC market just gets the laptop part of laptops so so wrong. Bad touchpads, bad screens, no battery life, unpleasant industrial design usually, crammed with crapware and other bullshit. I hand it to the few companies that do try harder to remedy these.
Eh, I want some battery, it's nice when you need to move rooms or someone kicks the power cable out. Even 15 minutes would be enough for a chonkster machine like this.
replyI wonder if a big capacitor would be cheaper than a battery, probably not with how huge in scale battery production is at this point.
replyThe early hybrid car of computers
replyThe thing is, I think there's probably a niche for a workstation laptop like that, but this doesn't really check the right boxes.
replyFor all that extra bulk it ought to be extremely robust and repairable, have the best specs possible, and be equipped with the kind of killer cooling system that a thin chassis can't deliver. Then the tradeoffs might make sense.