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Ok "bro" damn you're right and you sure showed my unc self! What an idiot I am!
Pick any laptop model you like and search for "how to remove battery" or look up the model on ifixit. Show me a single one where the battery cannot be removed. I'll wait.
You're arguing that something I've been doing for over a decade can't be done.
Why? Look at my perspective. On one hand, I have 10+years of lived experience doing this thing, on the other hand there's internet guy who says it can't be done?
Just compare a mini-pc to a entry level laptop with the same specifications from any manufacturer.
An Asus NUC with no disk or ram and an Intel 250 (celeron) uses 65W of power and starts around $300. It has 2 cores at 1.8ghz and costs go up from there.
From the same manufacturer at the same time, I can find over 300 laptop SKUs at the below $300 price point to choose from including the entry level zenbook 14, which, in addition to being complete (having ram is nice) packs a significantly more powerful processor and only uses 45W.
I never said it couldn't be done, hell, I've done it myself. Try being a human and asking me what my actual argument or suggested approach is, try re-reading what I actually said rather than assuming it is X just so you can dunk on it.
Max TDP is completely irrelevant, that is about cooling capacity which completely sucks in a laptop, hence the chip limit. The relevant factor for a server is idle power draw at the wall outlet.
For my servers I get second hand dell / hp / mini pcs for peanuts. Sips power, still work fine, still going strong, upgradeable storage etc. Second hand laptops of the same era are now useless ewaste.
Ah, that's your problem, you're buying Dell and HP laptops, which start off as e-waste. Their batteries have thermal issues while they're still on the factory line and their laptop power supplies are engineered to die no more than 3 minutes after the warranty expires.
We're probably talking past each other. I recommend switching to ASUS.
I'm buying dell and hp laptops? I thought I was the world expert on what I am doing but apparently not.