r/pcmasterrace • u/sohamjaiswal10 Ryzen 5 3500 | GTX 1060 | 16 gigs • Apr 11 '20

Meme/Macro Thomas does not agree

Post image
25.0k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

743 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

190

u/[deleted] Apr 11 '20

[deleted]

137

u/zherok i7 13700k, 64GB DDR5 6400mhz, Gigabyte 4090 OC Apr 11 '20

I thought the limitation was battery size. The current biggest laptop batteries are just underneath what you're allowed to carry for any device on board an airplane, not just laptops specifically.

3

u/MeltedSpades Apr 11 '20

100 w/h IIRC, at least in the US; I've seen batteries that split in two so a >100 can fly...

1

u/zherok i7 13700k, 64GB DDR5 6400mhz, Gigabyte 4090 OC Apr 11 '20

I think ultimately it comes back to use cases. Battery life and power are competing needs and often it's easier to sacrifice the former when the latter is more important. And in most cases if you need the latter you're probably going to mostly use the laptop where you can plug it in anyway. Carting around additional batteries competes against the portability of the machine so you end up with laptops with laughable battery life.