24 Mar
2010
24 Mar
'10
2:22 p.m.
On Mar 24, 2010, at 1:48 PM, ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
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 :).
- Josh
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....
[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] 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?
-tony