Laptops run all day on a charge
Apparently Intel has figured out how to do it. Centrino looks like a decent chip set.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...el_centrino_dc
Anybody know if IBM is working on a G5 variant to compete?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...el_centrino_dc
Anybody know if IBM is working on a G5 variant to compete?
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Originally posted by Jukebox Hero
Apparently Intel has figured out how to do it. Centrino looks like a decent chip set.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...el_centrino_dc
Anybody know if IBM is working on a G5 variant to compete?
What's the big deal? I get about 3,5 - 4 hours from my PB (17") (Yes - I really do - Just today I used it for notetaking in class. After 2 periods I still had about 65% charge left. When I lecture I keep the PB turned on for 1 h. 45 min. continuously with a video canon connected. I usually have about 50-60% charge left after this). Just turn off BlueTooth and AirPort when you don't use it and keep the light on the screen down.
Then - after 3-4 hours, close the screen, change the battery (always keep one fully loaded in your pack) - it'll take about 10 sec., open the screen and continue working. A 10 sec. break after 3,5 hours is surely not too much to ask?
I fail to see the problem.
Terje
Originally posted by Not Unlike Myself
I want a fusion powered battery which provides 6 month charges for under $100 each. Also the depleted uranion 'dead' batteries should double for artillery shells for the ongoing US conquest.
Uhm, it's either uranium and fission or hydrogen and fusion. Neither of which would be very healthy...
Originally posted by Smircle
Uhm, it's either uranium and fission or hydrogen and fusion. Neither of which would be very healthy...
Lead laptops...only 55lbs
Originally posted by tryd
What's the big deal? I get about 3,5 - 4 hours from my PB (17") (Yes - I really do - Just today I used it for notetaking in class. After 2 periods I still had about 65% charge left. When I lecture I keep the PB turned on for 1 h. 45 min. continuously with a video canon connected. I usually have about 50-60% charge left after this). Just turn off BlueTooth and AirPort when you don't use it and keep the light on the screen down.
Then - after 3-4 hours, close the screen, change the battery (always keep one fully loaded in your pack) - it'll take about 10 sec., open the screen and continue working. A 10 sec. break after 3,5 hours is surely not too much to ask?
I fail to see the problem.
Terje
On a single battery. Apple should be competative with the rest of the market. That means getting 5-6 hours out of a single battery.
Originally posted by kraig911
gah i was getting a decent charge I guess until I installed 10.2.8, I used to get 4 hours on a single charge with airport on, on my 15inch, but now... 2 hours just today WTF
Have you actually timed this, or are you going by what it says at the top of your screen?
Im hoping that the new 1.25Ghz 15incher I have just ordered will be able to pull off 4.5 to 5hrs no problem.
Originally posted by danmanix
Who knows why 10.2.8 kills so much battery time. Regardless, I think you will all be happy by what Panther does to your battery life... on my old ti500, battery life has jumped from (and this I verified in real-world) around 2.5 to 3hrs all the way up to... 4.5hrs or so.
Im hoping that the new 1.25Ghz 15incher I have just ordered will be able to pull off 4.5 to 5hrs no problem.
God I hope so. I have a rev a TiBook and I get less than an hour out of mine now doing nothing but writing.
Originally posted by kraig911
gah i was getting a decent charge I guess until I installed 10.2.8, I used to get 4 hours on a single charge with airport on, on my 15inch, but now... 2 hours just today WTF
Could just be the battery is getting old. My Dell (Don't say it) lasts 2 minutes on a charge.
I just installed 10.2.8 (from 10.2.6) yesterday. I used to boot to about 4-4.5 hours and then it would rapidly decrease to 3-3.5 range where it would however for an extended time (actually timed on a watch, it'd take me about 4 hours to drain the battery just typing and surfing)
Now, it boots showing, 2:25-2:35 and climbs a bit as I use it and then hovers around that mark for a good long while.
Could it be that the computer (under 10.2.8) doesn't report time remainig accurately. It wasn't accurate under .2.6 either, just to note, but it started off optimistically.
Originally posted by The Angel of the Abyss
Don't worry fuel cells are coming just squirt in some more fuel and keep going endlessly
Ummm, I don't want to carry around gasoline (or liquid hydrogen!) for my laptop. That is NOT ease of use and simplicity. Fuel cells are a bad design IMHO.
Originally posted by Yevgeny
Ummm, I don't want to carry around gasoline (or liquid hydrogen!) for my laptop. That is NOT ease of use and simplicity. Fuel cells are a bad design IMHO.
Haha well then IMHO your HO is not a good opinion
You don't have to carry around liquid hydrogen, you should be able to fill'er up at your house and go all day. The question is what would they do with the water vapor?!
Originally posted by Jukebox Hero
Could just be the battery is getting old. My Dell (Don't say it) lasts 2 minutes on a charge.
Dude! You got a Dell!
Originally posted by PBG4 Dude
Actually, the portable fuel cells runs on an alcohol based fluid not unlike windshield washer fluid. So, you can leave the H at home.
Perhaps I don't understand it but a product created is still water vapor correct? What do you do with that, I mean will ti evaporate enough that you don't have to worry about buildup?
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