[marshall]

Originally Posted by rich2202

"Essential to completeness" is not the standard. Everything on the robot needs something else in order to work.

R37 says: "batteries integral to and part of a COTS computing device". There have been many discussions about batteries and the Raspberry Pi. Until someone sells a Pi COTS with battery, the Pi cannot have its own battery. Team 4480's computer is no different. Hence a laptop (notebook, chromebook, pad, etc.) with a built in battery is the preferred solution.

Just because you have an Operating System on your COTS computing device that does not like a random shutdown is not an excuse. If you had a more fault tolerant OS (and a fast booting one), you would not "need" the second battery.

I call shenanigans. Your logic is broken. Laptops do not require a battery to function and can run off of a voltage regulator just like mini PCs and raspberry pis. If we're forced to deal with corrupt operating systems and files then why does a laptop not have to deal with it?

Q&A was asked a direct question about allowing replacement batteries for COTS devices and they chose to answer by explaining that integral means "essential to completeness". You are picking and choosing what that means (Just like I am... see the problem YET?!?!)... and if you're an LRI then you are entitled but no one else is.