alt Hacker NewsI've yet to find a laptop mainboard that doesn't work without a battery. As I've written below, I'm getting extremely boring old office laptops with integrated graphics. Usually phones also work fine without a battery. However, I'm not touching phones because I will not fiddle with locked bootloaders and "the Android situation". Running plain Linux is a hard requirement for me.
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The Framework laptop's motherboards can all be run without batteries. They have a 'standalone' mode you can toggle in the UEFI settings.
I'm just looking at an old Dell laptop refusing to boot without manual intervention because it looses its time setting since I removed its main battery. If I can fix that it'll become a very capable server for my home setup. Not sure it'll work though, as the bios can't be configured to ignore the time reset.
> I've yet to find a laptop mainboard that doesn't work without a battery.
Intel MacBook Pro from 2014 works but throttles the CPU to 800 Hz making it barely usable.