You don’t come out on a beautiful spring morning and tell everyone that new regulations voted today makes all laptops forbidden to be sold in the EU because they all violate the 4hours-old new law.
You pass the law, you communicate that it will be enforced in 5 years. Manufacturer have 5 years to update their design to be compliant. When the enforcement deadline arrives, no one find themselves in violation of the new regulation.
For Laptops, everyone knew it would come, because the law was enforced for Phones, then all recharge handheld devices and it was already clearly announced next steps would include laptops.
The EU law to enforce user replaceable batteries is already acted, not yet enforced. Manufacturers are preparing, we will see many more phones and laptops with easier batteries remplacement in the next few years for this reason.
Cool, though pretty much unnecessary at this point. Laptops have been USB-C for the last 5 years (business versions).
This will at least get the cheap consumer ones over the line.
Yes and why do you think that is the case?
They aren’t if you buy cheapass laptops. That is still barreljack hell.
You don’t come out on a beautiful spring morning and tell everyone that new regulations voted today makes all laptops forbidden to be sold in the EU because they all violate the 4hours-old new law.
You pass the law, you communicate that it will be enforced in 5 years. Manufacturer have 5 years to update their design to be compliant. When the enforcement deadline arrives, no one find themselves in violation of the new regulation.
For Laptops, everyone knew it would come, because the law was enforced for Phones, then all recharge handheld devices and it was already clearly announced next steps would include laptops.
The EU law to enforce user replaceable batteries is already acted, not yet enforced. Manufacturers are preparing, we will see many more phones and laptops with easier batteries remplacement in the next few years for this reason.
But manufacturers also have to offer an option without a charger, which I don’t think is already universal.