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08/23/2006, 2:20pm, EDT
Wednesday, August 23rd
Apple, Dell to discuss battery standard
Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo are scheduled to hold a summit meeting in San Jose, California to discuss manufacturing standards for lithium-ion batteries made for portable and handheld electronics. The decision follows reports of laptop batteries bursting into flame, ultimately resulting in a massive recall by Dell last week of 4.1 million notebook batteries. Both Dell and Sony on Monday admitted in a statement that a design flaw in certain lithium-ion batteries could potentially ignite or cause an explosion. The companies to hold the summit meeting are part of the OEM Critical Components Committee of the IPC-Association Connecting Electronics Industries. The organization boasts roughly 2,400 members involved in making, designing or using electronic components, according to the E-Commerce Times.
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Not to mention it would help consumers. Oh wait, nevermind.
oh i have an idea.. standardize the DC power jacks. oh wait.. no that's too intelligent.
Let's stifle Apple's innovation be requiring them to use a standardized battery size and power supply.
If that were the case, MacBooks would have to use the same size power brick as the MacBook Pro and we wouldn't have the MagSafe connectors.
Personally, I prefer the innovation over being able to use the same battery as my old PowerBook or the same power brick as a coworkers Dell.
I expect the same this time around.
Right, there's so much innovation on those batteries! Look, its got a rounded corner on one end!
If that were the case, MacBooks would have to use the same size power brick as the MacBook Pro
No, you'd have different size batteries for different size computers (stupid to think you'd have just one size, because if Apple ever dared make a sub-notebook, the battery would take up much of the size).
and we wouldn't have the MagSafe connectors.And what does having a magsafe connector have to do with the battery? That's a power supply/connector, not anything related to the battery. Although wouldn't it be nice if there were a standard connector as well, so if you forgot your power pack you weren't screwed, you could borrow someone elses?
Personally, I prefer the innovation over being able to use the same battery as my old PowerBook or the same power brick as a coworkers Dell.
yeah, nothing like having all that money to throw around. Who wants to use all those parts from your previous computer on your new one, just buy all new things! Of course, that's the mac way, anyway. Get an iMac! Then when the computer needs to be replaced, you can throw out that perfectly good built-in LCD as well that you spent all that money on and just buy a new computer with another built-in LCD!
Let's see here, when I was doing the PC thing, I built my own and kept it for 3 years.
Every time, I had to pretty much toss the whole thing except for the HD and monitor. PC-66->PC100->PC133->DDR->DDR2. AGP1x->8x->PCIE, different motherboards. AT->ATX->new ATX.