<story><title>Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard</title><url>https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinetab-10-1-linux-tablet-with-detached-backlit-keyboard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chipotle_coyote</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;think&lt;/i&gt; I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen that behavior with a MacBook Pro of any vintage -- and I&amp;#x27;ve had an MBP of one stripe or another since at least 2007, using the date of the 2007 MacBook Pro gathering dust bunnies nearby -- except when I use the wrong power supply with it, e.g., a 13&amp;quot; MBP power supply with a 15&amp;quot; one, or my MacBook Air&amp;#x27;s power supply with any MBP now.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t doubt it&amp;#x27;s possible to draw more power than the adapter can give you if you&amp;#x27;re pushing the MBP full-bore, but I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure that under normal power loads, this doesn&amp;#x27;t happen.</text></item><item><author>JadeNB</author><text>MBPs at some point switched to drawing power faster than it could be provided by the plug alone.  Of course, you can&amp;#x27;t tell nowadays whether laptops will work without a battery, because most batteries are non-removeable.</text></item><item><author>pinfisher</author><text>That is unusual. I have never had a laptop that would not work without a battery present.</text></item><item><author>zozbot234</author><text>&amp;gt; What I&amp;#x27;d like to know is if it will work with the battery compartment empty on AC power only.&lt;p&gt;The Pinebook &lt;i&gt;laptops&lt;/i&gt; can work without a battery while connected to AC, but not out of the box. A simple hardware mod is necessary to enable this, that&amp;#x27;s documented by Pine.</text></item><item><author>slantyyz</author><text>I noticed this has a removable battery, which makes this very interesting to me.&lt;p&gt;What I&amp;#x27;d like to know is if it will work with the battery compartment empty on AC power only.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to have &amp;quot;smart&amp;quot; displays wall mounted around the house with dashboards on them. I&amp;#x27;ve read about so many instances where people used wall mounted iPads and Android tablets where the batteries would swell after a period of use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anthonyskipper</author><text>Try mining cryptocurrency, running prime95, playing fps shooters, or even dota on high settings.  You will notice the battery draining while plugged in.  You also see it if you are on an airplane, but that is usually because the charger tries to pull too much and overheats and gives up ghost.  Macbooks have underpowered chargers.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pinetab – 10.1″ Linux Tablet with Detached Backlit Keyboard</title><url>https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinetab-10-1-linux-tablet-with-detached-backlit-keyboard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chipotle_coyote</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;think&lt;/i&gt; I&amp;#x27;ve ever seen that behavior with a MacBook Pro of any vintage -- and I&amp;#x27;ve had an MBP of one stripe or another since at least 2007, using the date of the 2007 MacBook Pro gathering dust bunnies nearby -- except when I use the wrong power supply with it, e.g., a 13&amp;quot; MBP power supply with a 15&amp;quot; one, or my MacBook Air&amp;#x27;s power supply with any MBP now.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t doubt it&amp;#x27;s possible to draw more power than the adapter can give you if you&amp;#x27;re pushing the MBP full-bore, but I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure that under normal power loads, this doesn&amp;#x27;t happen.</text></item><item><author>JadeNB</author><text>MBPs at some point switched to drawing power faster than it could be provided by the plug alone.  Of course, you can&amp;#x27;t tell nowadays whether laptops will work without a battery, because most batteries are non-removeable.</text></item><item><author>pinfisher</author><text>That is unusual. I have never had a laptop that would not work without a battery present.</text></item><item><author>zozbot234</author><text>&amp;gt; What I&amp;#x27;d like to know is if it will work with the battery compartment empty on AC power only.&lt;p&gt;The Pinebook &lt;i&gt;laptops&lt;/i&gt; can work without a battery while connected to AC, but not out of the box. A simple hardware mod is necessary to enable this, that&amp;#x27;s documented by Pine.</text></item><item><author>slantyyz</author><text>I noticed this has a removable battery, which makes this very interesting to me.&lt;p&gt;What I&amp;#x27;d like to know is if it will work with the battery compartment empty on AC power only.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to have &amp;quot;smart&amp;quot; displays wall mounted around the house with dashboards on them. I&amp;#x27;ve read about so many instances where people used wall mounted iPads and Android tablets where the batteries would swell after a period of use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>I suspect that this is the reason why MBPs now refuse to boot on low battery. You used to be able to start up the machine when your battery was at 0% (as long as you were plugged in), but newer MBPs complain and don&amp;#x27;t boot up until you recharge to 10% or so.</text></comment>