Laptop without battery?

HP’s global internal site has a special section called My Voice, where employees from around the world can express their ideas on how to improve HP products, express their opinions about the processes within the company, or just tell an interesting story from their practice. Every week one of the letters is published on the site, and I don’t remember yet another occasion that it wasn’t interesting.

And recently, Jeff Drury from our office in Spring, Texas, noticed an interesting fact: laptops have become so popular that all his family and all his friends buy themselves a laptop as the only computer. But, oddly enough, they do not need to work on a computer on the road at all - 99% of the time it is connected to the network, whether it is worth it at home or taken with them for the Christmas holidays to their parents.

It turns out that the laptop battery is one of its main elements, the characteristics of which are often considered decisive when buying - for Jeff’s loved ones it becomes just overweight in a suitcase and a waste of money. “My family and I would be happy to sacrifice true mobility for less weight or more power,” writes Jeff. Honestly, I myself sometimes think that even my baby 2230s would be better to lose weight ...
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Did you think that you could do without some familiar components of computer equipment?