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Comment Re: Nothing new (Score 1) 26

It never ceases to amaze me that there are people who think that their use case and priorities are the only valid ones.

Sure, nowadays there are ultralight laptops that can last much longer, but I wanted mine with a 4k screen and reasonably decent dedicated graphics card for the time (2015). And even if I know that nowadays laptops are much more efficient, if mine is still working why should I replace it because there are newer ones that last longer? I'll replace it when it breaks.

Comment Re:Nothing new (Score 1) 26

Not sure about the Dell 7730, but my Del XPS 15 from 5 years ago has this. There is some battery setting in the BIOS, where you can choose "adaptive" or some fixed threshold. I have mine set to charge only when the battery is lower than 50% and only charges up to 80%. Still have a very reasonable battery life out of it (though not the 5+ hours I used to get when I got it).

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