Microsoft 'software-defined battery' improves laptop stamina

[HEXUS]

Technique involves using different types of batteries and machine learning.

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[DanceswithUnix]

Because what I really want in my laptop is more batteries and charging circuits and power switching logic to consume power and go wrong.

After the recent Nexus "10 minutes charging gives 7 hours battery life" announcement this seems too Heath Robinson to be quaint.

[Myss_tree]

If companies threw a bit more research and development into batteries rather than the obssesion with thinness of devices perhaps a longer lasting battery will come about quicker.
A lot of folk (majority younger) are buying power on the go cases which effectively double the thickness of the device but it looks just like one device.
I think that 'thinness' is more a tech industry obsession than a consumer one.

[kalniel]

Well the multiple batteries are already present - we just join them up and stick them inside a plastic cover and let electrons equilibrate over them - this should allow you to compensate for per cell variations in quality (important to help get the cost down) and service life. I'm fairly certain this kind of tech has been around for ages, but I guess it's not been part of a consumer OS before.