• tal@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    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.