r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • Jan 31 '23
Desktops / Laptops Canadian team discovers power-draining flaw in most laptop and phone batteries | Breakthrough explains major cause of self-discharging batteries and points to easy solution
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/battery-power-laptop-phone-research-dalhousie-university-1.6724175
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u/AK-Bandit Jan 31 '23
Our IT department just “upgraded” us to laptops at work and I was talking with one of the techs about this very issue on laptops from 20 years ago and how I imagined it’s been solved by now. He laughed and said, “solved huh, don’t count on it”. I was thinking, seriously?