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I generally upgrade when the battery can't keep up any more (or the damn thing falls apart, like my old X201). My 1st gen Thinkpad X1 was put out to pasture whe

by ajford 8y ago

I generally upgrade when the battery can't keep up any more (or the damn thing falls apart, like my old X201). My 1st gen Thinkpad X1 was put out to pasture when the battery would only last about 2 hours and the (proprietary) ssd started going bad. Upgraded to a T460 with an i5 and love it. The hot-swappable battery is great in my book, although I don't understand why they don't have a separate charging dock for them.

ProAm 8y ago
The battery is hot swappable? Meaning the laptop stays powered on while you change the battery out? That is cool.
- snazz 8y ago
  Yes. Many ThinkPads had a small internal battery to power it when you were swapping the main battery.
  - ProAm 8y ago
    That is awesome, I had no idea. Dumb question, do you know what the feature is called, just hot-swappable capable or something for when Im shopping?
    - snazz 8y ago
      “ThinkPad Internal Battery” works on Google.
  - cr0sh 8y ago
    Heh - my TRS-80 Model 100 has that feature: A small NiCad (though I'll be swapping it with a newer super capacitor soon) keeps the memory contents available when you swap out the four AA batteries if they run low (you get several days of runtime off them).