So I recently acquired a beastly laptop for work. It has a 4k Screen, 32gbs of Ram, 4TB(ish) of SSD space and an equally beefy processor (Remarkable given that it's only slightly thicker than a Macbook). Now, with creative under-volting and an aggressive power management scheme I've managed to extend it's puny 67kwh battery into giving me about ~5 to 5.5hrs of battery life with light productivity/development.
I'd like to add a bit more to that, I'm not expecting MacBook levels of battery life obviously, I'd be happy with one or two extra hours. The issue that I'm running into is "the beast" has an 180w power brick that's always drawing 180w. (well 179.8w to be exact) From what I have seen most external power blocks that can fit into a laptop messenger bag cap out at 120w, so I'd trip their safety system.
So I thought, well maybe I can plug a battery right into "the beast" as it does not appear to be a proprietary power connectior...no dice, It talks to its power brick. I don't know what it's saying. But if it doesn't like the handshake it get's back, it doesn't accept the charge.
So I was hoping the Tom's hardware community might have stumbled across a product I might have missed in my current scouring of Amazon/Ebay/Alibaba.
Thanks in advance!
I'd like to add a bit more to that, I'm not expecting MacBook levels of battery life obviously, I'd be happy with one or two extra hours. The issue that I'm running into is "the beast" has an 180w power brick that's always drawing 180w. (well 179.8w to be exact) From what I have seen most external power blocks that can fit into a laptop messenger bag cap out at 120w, so I'd trip their safety system.
So I thought, well maybe I can plug a battery right into "the beast" as it does not appear to be a proprietary power connectior...no dice, It talks to its power brick. I don't know what it's saying. But if it doesn't like the handshake it get's back, it doesn't accept the charge.
So I was hoping the Tom's hardware community might have stumbled across a product I might have missed in my current scouring of Amazon/Ebay/Alibaba.
Thanks in advance!