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You can even upgrade the Framework Laptop’s battery life now.

The modular repairable laptop company has managed to create a new 61Wh battery that fits in the exact same space as its previous 55Wh pack, thanks to a new chemistry.

That’s only 11 percent better, but when’s the last time you made an old laptop last longer than when you bought it brand-new?

A new flat prismatic battery being placed into an open laptop shell with motherboard exposed
61 watt-hours.
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