24 Mar
2010
24 Mar
'10
6:24 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 08:48:59PM +0000, Tony Duell wrote:
And I've got a machine that operates for weeks of moderate daily use
on two AA cells.
On 24 Mar 2010 at 3:23, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
Well, considering my 80x86-based laptop (which is over 20 years
old) runs for well over 10 hours before needeing a charge.... You have to go back quite a few years in time to
find NiCd chemistry
in laptop batteries. Anything designed in the last several years is
some kind of Lithium based (LiIon, LiPoly, ...) battery chemistry.
Does that fall into the "nothing good in the last 20 years" claim? [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.
Same with the above mentioned machine. It is also not exactly the most
powerful machine around. But if you want modern hardware capabilities,
then one of the prices you've got to pay is a power consumption of quite
a bit more than a few hundred mW.
The memory is row
after row of 6264s, the battery islead-acid. No prizes for guessing what
it is]
Regards,
Alex.
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