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Not going to put a battery powered device not made for 24/7 into a corner of my flat, to be running 24/7 and be forgotten about. I've seen one too many puffed u
by megous 5y ago
Not going to put a battery powered device not made for 24/7 into a corner of my flat, to be running 24/7 and be forgotten about. I've seen one too many puffed up batteries in a laptop to risk that. Nope.
When networking isn't working, SBCs have serial consoles for that.
- proto-n 5y agoTo be fair you can just take out the batteries and run it that way
- lynguist 5y agoMany Thinkpads are however limiting the CPU to 800 MHz without a battery.
- proto-n 5y agoThat's very useful info for the future, thank you. Yet another infuriating decision by lenovo. I wonder what the reason could be.
- lloeki 5y agoThese days power bricks are not external power sources anymore but merely charging devices. CPU spikes can create power draws that could not be handled by power bricks as the system is designed as a whole, including a working battery to absorb such spikes, allowing for a downsized power brick (cheaper, simpler, smaller). Gimping the CPU allows the machine to reliably operate in absence of battery, otherwise CPU spikes would result in power loss.
- proto-n 5y agoAlso very useful info, now I'm way less infuriated. Thanks!
- csdvrx 5y agoWhich some ACPI tables on EC editing might fix. EC editing is how the Fn keys of traditional keyboards from the xx20 series transplanted into the xx30 series are made to work
- ttkari 5y agoFWIW, ThinkPads support setting custom battery charge thresholds, which lowers the risk in this scenario. It also prolongs the battery life as the battery is not kept charged at 100% for extended periods of time.