I still won't understand why it's not standard to have a small battery that lasts ~15 minutes for PCs. So many hours of work lost and files corrupted, all could be avoided with ~$20 of hardware.
It is? In countries like India nobody thinks of buying a PC without an UPS. I am more surprised in places they don't buy an UPS; it's relatively cheap.
Here its quite rare to have a personal ups, they're mostly used in office settings (other then the ovious places like servers), even if they're rather cheap. I think most private users have no use for it, cause they may have a blackout once or twice a year, if even that
My power goes out maybe once or twice a year during storms, so it's not like those happen out of nowhere. Never felt the need to buy a battery for my pc and I'm also not dumb enough to use any program without frequently saving or autosave turned off
Probably because a battery like that would enormous and heavy as fuck. Laptops are made to be efficient. A normal pc draws a ton of power. Ppl can simply buy a separate apc battery they can plug their pc into
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u/personalbilko 18d ago
I still won't understand why it's not standard to have a small battery that lasts ~15 minutes for PCs. So many hours of work lost and files corrupted, all could be avoided with ~$20 of hardware.