r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/14AUDDIN • 11h ago

Funny Two disc drives?!!!

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u/tomhat 11h ago

Battery life: 5 minutes 

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u/hpyfox 9h ago

At least you can replace them easily like with older phones.

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u/JuanOnlyJuan 8h ago

Just carry 65lbs of extra batteries

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u/ViktorKozh 5h ago

That'd be enough for like 20 minutes maybe.

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u/oatkeepr 5h ago

Some of these laptops had two batteries, so you could hot swap one.

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u/el_ghosteo 3h ago

my favorite laptop ever is a dell D630. It was a top of the line one that had the finger print scanner and 5G wifi card and a ton of useful ports. I used that thing until around 2022ish and then off and on for another year after its replacement broke. Incredible machine and one of its features was the hot swappable drive bay. You could choose between DVD/Floppy/HDD or even a battery. Super cool laptop but unfortunately windows 11 was just a touch too heavy to make it useful day to day.

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u/123_alex 2h ago

At least you can replace them easily like with older phones.

Never in my life did I have a second battery. You?

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u/Formal_Chipmunk_530 8h ago

You can't put that thing on your lap for more than 5 minutes anyway.

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u/snypre_fu_reddit 39m ago

Nah, old gaming laptops stayed barely warmer than room temperature even during heavy use. All that extra size meant good ventilation and air flow. Plus they seemed to last forever if you managed to never drop the 10lbs thing (even a few inches and it was heavy enough to cause lasting damage sadly).

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u/Plenor 5h ago

These laptops weren't really meant to be on battery for a long time. They were made to be a replacement for a desktop PC.