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Originally Posted by mdp
Have you considered external batteries? For example, I just bought a 9000mAh - not much capacity (in the phone I keep ~7000), but it's rugged. This one alone would over triple the wake time of your Max...
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If there is still some life in the internal battery, an external battery would definitely extend one's productivity time on the Max. But that is also an extra item to lug about.
However, what happens when the internal is completely shot? Would one be able to power the Max from an external battery if the internal one can no longer hold any charge?
I ask this because I recently had a battery on a cheapo tablet fail. It would no longer hold a charge for any length of time. At first, I was not worried. I figured I could just plug it into a wall charger and use it like that... I only got the device for its HDMI port so that I could hook it up to a projector at work... Unfortunately, the tablet would not power up until there was a minimum charge on the battery. That took an awfully long time to achieve because the battery would no longer hold its charge. I would have to plug it into a wall charger several hours before I wanted to use it. Not very convenient. So I eventually figured out how to change the battery. Now it works fine again. Or as fine as a cheapo tablet ever works.
If the power system on the "typewriter" is designed more like that on many laptops, one would be able to use it without any battery in it at all. It might also be a lot easier to replace the battery when it eventually dies without having to get out a soldering iron and brush up on one's very rusty soldering skills.