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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Mileage varies.
But I have a Vista era Netbook that (through multiple upgrades up to Win10) still works. Battery life is less than two hours. But it still runs fine. Noticeably better than when new thanks to the OS upgrades. The power connector is mostly okay. A bit loose. A replacement battery is $15 but running it strictly off AC is good enough.
My older-still Compaq tablet works fine off battery but the power connector just won't connect. I have an external battery charger and a spare so it works on battery power but it's too much of a hassle to bother.
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But both those machines would be dead if they were modern tablets, which can't run directly off external power with no battery, and where you can't swap the batteries out.
Batteries are the weak point in all devices at the moment.