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Lithium batteries don't like extreme temperatures. Is it possible to make a laptop that copes ok with extreme temperatures? edit Apparently the Toughbook is ab

Lithium batteries don't like extreme temperatures. Is it possible to make a laptop that copes ok with extreme temperatures? edit Apparently the Toughbook is able to cope with -16°C. Wonder how they do it. https://business.panasonic.co.uk/mobile-solutions/more-about-toughbook/the-touhest-rugged-mobile-computers https://business.panasonic.co.uk/mobile-solutions/more-about...

kodisha 6y ago
Nope, the entire laptop was dead. Booted into some black screen of death, with glitches. I never saw something like that before or after that.
- chithanh 6y ago
  Possibly condensing water caused some transient short circuit. If your laptop survived, you were lucky.
  - hinkley 6y ago
    Kids these days. Anybody remember when rental movies had warnings about letting them warm up before playing them if they were exposed to cold temperatures?
tzs 6y ago
Some Toughbooks go to -25 C. https://www.fieldenvironmental.com/assets/files/Literature/Panasonic%20Toughbook%20CF-19%20Specs.pdf https://www.fieldenvironmental.com/assets/files/Literature/P...
NeutronStar 6y ago
Because they actually engineer their products to be usable?