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Tony Hill
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 Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:52 pm Post subject: Re: 5 hours of battery life coming soon? |
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:33:41 -0400, Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@yahoo.com>
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As they always say, "I'll believe it when I see it!".
Actually getting 5 hour battery life is easy these days, just build a
laptop with really ultra-low voltage processors, a 12" or 13" screen,
low-end video and a 4200rpm hard drive, then connect it all to the
same battery you would usually find in a laptop with a 17" screen.
Bingo, instant 5-hour battery life. Of course, you also end up with a
8lbs notebook with only a 13" screen, and no one is going to actually
BUY such a laptop, but it's certainly do-able for presentation
purposes.
Hopefully AMD announcement is based off a little more substance than
that!
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Tony Hill
hilla <underscore> 20 <at> yahoo <dot> ca |
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Jan Panteltje
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:51 pm Post subject: Re: 5 hours of battery life coming soon? |
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On a sunny day (Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:55:32 -0400) it happened Tony Hill
<hilla_nospam_20@yahoo.com> wrote in
<oqn003dn6p777o7vqr197hvh5m5sv8t260@4ax.com>:
| Quote: | On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:33:41 -0400, Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@yahoo.com
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AMD promises new Turions will bring 5-hour battery life - TechSpot News
http://www.techspot.com/news/24678-AMD-promises-new-Turions-will-bring-5hour-battery-life.html
As they always say, "I'll believe it when I see it!".
Actually getting 5 hour battery life is easy these days, just build a
laptop with really ultra-low voltage processors, a 12" or 13" screen,
low-end video and a 4200rpm hard drive, then connect it all to the
same battery you would usually find in a laptop with a 17" screen.
Bingo, instant 5-hour battery life. Of course, you also end up with a
8lbs notebook with only a 13" screen, and no one is going to actually
BUY such a laptop, but it's certainly do-able for presentation
purposes.
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Yes -
Almost 8 hours:
http://www.laptop.org/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml
;-)
(500mA max current @ 6V is <= 3W, 22.8 Watt.hours / 3 is => 7.6 Hours. |
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Yousuf Khan
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:48 pm Post subject: Re: 5 hours of battery life coming soon? |
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Tony Hill wrote:
| Quote: | As they always say, "I'll believe it when I see it!".
Actually getting 5 hour battery life is easy these days, just build a
laptop with really ultra-low voltage processors, a 12" or 13" screen,
low-end video and a 4200rpm hard drive, then connect it all to the
same battery you would usually find in a laptop with a 17" screen.
Bingo, instant 5-hour battery life. Of course, you also end up with a
8lbs notebook with only a 13" screen, and no one is going to actually
BUY such a laptop, but it's certainly do-able for presentation
purposes.
Hopefully AMD announcement is based off a little more substance than
that!
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Actually, it looks like Intel is claiming the same battery life for its
Santa Rosa notebook platform. I suspect it's got as much to do with
low-power chipsets as it does with low-power CPUs too.
Yousuf Khan
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