25 Mar
2010
25 Mar
'10
12:42 p.m.
On Mar 25, 2010, at 11:38 AM, ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
wrote:
Oh come on... It's not a car battery, it's 3 2.5Ah Cyclon cells. And
the
batteryt comparies favourably in amss with other similar-capacity
batteries of the time.
I was thinking more of the battery in the original Mac Portable (which
I know is not what you're referring to). The portable weighed 16lbs,
due in no small part to the lead-acid battery it used. I guess it's
technically not a laptop, but it was definitely not in the same class
as, say, the Compaq portable. :)
- Josh
Well, considering my 80x86-based laptop (which is
over 20 years
old) runs for well over 10 hours before needeing a charge....
[Of coruse it does't have a backlit display. or a colour display, or
internal disk drives. You don't use it to watch movies. The memory
is row
after row of 6264s, the battery islead-acid. No prizes for guessing
what
it is]
And it must be so fun to lug around (or use on one's lap) with that
lead-acid battery :). I'm guessing my netbook could run for quite a
time were I willing to lug a car battery around with it :).
I do however refuse to call the Amstrad PPC640 a 'Laptop'. That
machine
is wider than a PDP11.
-tony