Comment by BatteryMountain

6 days ago

You know what this means right? Turn this old man into a server (remove battery for safety). It will work for many more years.

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chrismorgan  6 days ago

I was planning on building a PC toward the end of last year, but several life things and the need for an inverter (I live in India now, and power is regularly off for hours) complicated and delayed it, and when I came back to it in December, RAM had got super expensive, and I just couldn’t justify the 50% increase in total price. Now if this laptop stopped working more…

  • BatteryMountain  6 days ago

    If you can afford it, a small or medium ecoflow battery and one or two 200W solar panels with solve a ton of your issues in India, if nobody steals it. I'm in Africa and have frequent load shedding too, and I've replaced so many devices in my home with rechargeable/outdoor variants that can be recharged/powered by solar if needed.

    Also, don't buy asus again. If you are looking for repairable laptops, dell, hp and lenovo are the only decent brands when it comes to repairs & parts (make sure the not to buy the cheapest consumer models).

    • chrismorgan  6 days ago

      If you want a fixed installation, EcoFlow products seem rather expensive. You look to pay a huge premium for the portability, which is actually less convenient than the traditional inverter design if you don’t need it. Simplifying things to a single number for their cheapest vaguely-comparable products, 1 kWh, LiFePO₄, solar-capable: EcoFlow Delta 3 1000 Air is ₹60,000, Livsol L-iON1500 is ₹27,500.

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BatteryMountain  6 days ago

Why would someone down vote this comment? Its perfectly reasonable to reuse old hardware with broken components (screens, keyboards) into server/passive devices that sits in the corner and still being useful, instead of going to the trash. Removing old battery is good advice as they are a fire hazard if you keep them plugged in and they are degraded - best to remove it completely and run the laptop off main power and/or add an external UPS if you can afford it.

Please let me know why this specific comment was down voted.