IBM scientists in India developed an experimental power supply from reusable lithium ion cells salvaged from three - year -
old laptop battery packs.
They developed an experimental power supply, called the UrJar, consisting of reusable lithium ion cells salvaged from three - year -
old laptop battery packs.
Not exact matches
I just needed a new
laptop, the
older one had a
battery so fried that I was practically married to the outlet.
Battery, Keyboard, RAM, Screen, Hard Disk, Motherboard, CPU, Casing Great activity to do with some
old laptops and screwdrivers.
I read the small print, the 8 year «unlimited»
battery warranty only replaces your
old battery with a used
battery of the same degraded range, so that's not a fix for expected capacity fade, which is 10 % + per year for all Li batts — just look at your phone or
laptop.
«To qualify, your
old Laptop or Netbook must be undamaged (reasonable wear and tear accepted), less than 4 years
old, working and complete with functioning
battery, and power supply.»
We recently made a few upgrades to an
old laptop computer that took it from puttering to perform simple tasks with a quickly draining
battery to blazing through them just like the one I'm typing on now.
In our
Battery Eater load we see that the new Haswell - powered M5 actually goes flat more quickly than the
older Ivy Bridge
laptop.
But in terms of
battery life, the 2017 Surface Pro represents better competition for
laptops than the
older Surface Pro 4.
Even the age -
old PC was interesting, as Windows
laptops showed they could have sleek designs with great
battery life; monitors grew even larger and got more pixels; and the lowly Chromebook was imbued with new life (and a stylus).
While that may be impressive if your
old laptop only managed a few hours of life, it pales in comparison with the Lenovo ThinkPad T470 with its extended
battery (17:39), the ThinkPad X1 Carbon (15:59), and the Dell Latitude 7480 (13:03).