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Not sure if that's a typo in the post but 6,800 mAH for a laptop is tiny. EDIT: Nevermind, I was thinking of WHr. If it is using a 12V adapter, that is plenty.
by pavanky 10y ago
Not sure if that's a typo in the post but 6,800 mAH for a laptop is tiny.
EDIT: Nevermind, I was thinking of WHr. If it is using a 12V adapter, that is plenty.
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoThat's about what it is in my mid 2014 13" rMBP and I regularly get 8 hours coding on it.
- kogepathic 10y agoThe appropriate measure of capacity would be watt-hours, not milliamp hours. IIRC the MacBook Pro has a 3 cell battery, meaning that you'll get around ~76Wh from the battery (11.2V * 6800mAh). It's not safe to assume that all laptops will have a 3 cell battery. They might have chosen to install a 2 cell battery, in which case the capacity would only be ~50Wh (7.4V * 6800mAh). That's 35% less capacity!
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoTrue. But is anyone shipping laptop with a Voltage that low? I see them up around 10.8 - 11.1.
- kogepathic 10y agoI don't know about laptops, but I would expect a lot of these "2 in 1" devices to ship with a 1 or 2 cell battery. Tablets frequently have lower voltage batteries. The iPad 4 for example has 3 cells but they're all in parallel, so the voltage is only 4.2V. For laptops the sweet spot seems to be 3 cells, and I'm not entirely sure why, apart from higher voltages requiring smaller traces/wires. Maybe due to the LCD backlight? The LCD from the iPad 4 actually requires ~12V for the backlight, so there's a buck boost converter somewhere on the iPad logic board for this.
- pavanky 10y agoAh shit I was thinking of WHr which is different.