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Incorrectly advertising battery capacity as 32W instead of (presumably) 32WH is a hilarious mistake for a company the size of HP




You beat me to it. 32W, but for how long? 8 hours? 11 seconds? 32W would be true in both cases.

5 attoseconds

W & watts has become a colloquialism for watt-hours in the EV space at least.

e.g. "how much did consume at the super charger" -- about 10 watts (WH).

So it's not literally correct, but it's becoming commonplace to say that.

slang , pigeons and dialects all develop based off of context like this.


If there was any doubt left whether Hewlett-Packard is still a company run by engineers, that was a clean way to dispel it.

Perhaps some rogue proofreader "fixed" a stray character

I mean at least they didn't use mah. I am surprised it actually have a battery in it I thought you would have to plug it in to use it.

The battery is optional, and from the ad copy not intended to power active “use” only moving between different (presumably nearby) work locations without shutting down (probably sleep.)

I would guess that it also helps with accidental restarts due to power loss while repositioning the keyboard on your desk. It doesn't take much force to pull out USB-C.



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