In theory, lithium cells dislike heat, rapid charging will cause a buildup of heat in the cell.

In my professional opinion, it's useful in a pinch, but not something you want to use daily unless you're cool with replacing the battery more often.

Hey I'm also thinking to purchase the same laptop, but heard that battery life is short, is there anyway we can upgrade the battery later on? I just want to keep options

I don't recommend using rapid charge unless you really have to, it decreases the longevity of your battery.

From what I've read and experienced charging to 100% everytime wears the battery. I use the conservation mode whenever I'm at home and plugged in. This stops charging battery once the charge level hits 60%. Now before I carry my laptop somewhere I enable rapid mode which charges my battery to 100% reasonably fast.

How long it takes to charge battery from 0 to 60 and o to 100 using rapid charge?

I don’t think rapid charge is bad....going to 100% is the only thing that adds wear AFAIK

It's the same as fast charging on phone. So is it bad? No

Nope, not at all--depends on the brand/model. Some have battery health features, others don't. Check your laptop's settings or apps

Not all, no. 

Depends on the brands and system. Some laptops can adjust it at the setting. And the batteries of the laptop run in a different way. If you are using it with the battery fully charged and the electricity on then it won't consist charging the battery but power the laptop straightforward therefore this function doesn't matter a lot.

if you want to geek it out, its doable with smart socket that can be controlled with some kind of api

Yes. It increases electron (amperage) flow to your battery, thus creating more heat. Heat in electronics, especially Li-Ion batteries = wear. So you wear out you battery quicker. So only use it when you really need it.

Fast charging introduces extra heat and degrades the battery. Only use it when you really need to.

No not a feature thats enabled on all manufacturers.

MSI has an adjustable charge limit depending on the MSI Control Center software.

Asus has the option for 60%, 80% and 100%. with G-helper you can get 40% to 100%.

Yes

Thinkpads can go as low as 60%. On Linux I was able to go even lower than that but it was a fucking mess so I came back to windows.

commercial vantage, yes.

i have a lenovo laptop and i have had trouble with the USB-C charging. sometimes it wont charge at all using a 65W PD USB-C charger and then if i plug my girlfriends Apple USB-C charger in for a second, and then plug in MY charger it will work. randomly. not the cable since i have tried different cables. so whatever you do, try it all our first BEFORE you travel. i am in europe and having to borrow friends Apple chargers just to get my laptop to see mine. no idea why.

When laptops support USB-C charging, they usually mean PD compliant 45W or higher chargers. Now it depends whether your phone charger is compliant with that if it will work.

just my phone charger

Probably no. Read your phone charger, see what voltages and wattages it can put out, it will most likely not be adequate for your laptop.

The other way around - just carrying your laptop charger for both your phone and laptop - should work fine.

I would probably swap your thought around. Take your laptop charger with you, and use it to charge your phone as well.

Rapid smart charge happens whenever you plug into the supplied charger using the cable regardless of your battery level.

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Rapid charge happens whenever you use the supplied Supervooc charger and cable regardless of your battery level.

Your time saved in the last 7 days = 0 min. Why? It's because you didn't use the cable in the box. That piece of cable is a special Supervooc compliant cable despite it looking like any other cable around your house.

It is not an ordinary cable. Use it together with the supplied charger and you will see your time saved.

I think it depends on the support rep you get. I tried multiple times with multiple support reps. They always told me, that they would look into things, asked me to run tests, one of them straight up told me that that is just how very powerful laptops work.

Didn't get my charger sadly.

Is this actually good for your laptop?

What do you say in order to get one?

How did u get the free charger? You open a ticket through lenovo support? They replace your existing charger or give you the high power one free extra and you now have two chargers?

I did and they told me no. What exactly should I say to customer support?