3 ms·

Never thought of that. But, I'm very sure Apple will use those big.LITTLE chips and use a dramatically smaller battery to give you 10 hours of battery life and

Never thought of that. But, I'm very sure Apple will use those big.LITTLE chips and use a dramatically smaller battery to give you 10 hours of battery life and thinner laptop. /S. I feel like in the past few years, processors are remaining as fast but better power efficient, but the end-user never sees longer use out of them. Because manufacturers skimp on battery catching up with power efficiency :-(

rbanffy 9y ago
If I built a computer as heavy as my first Thinkpad using a modern processor and filling the rest of the machine with batteries, I'd have a month of continuous use ;-)
- froh42 9y ago
  There are regulations on how much li ion battey a machine may have to be allowed in the cabin pn a plane. I think many companies won't cross that limit. So something like the removable / modular batteries from the past might be great
  - Joeri 9y ago
    https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ash/ash_programs/hazmat/passenger_info/media/Airline_passengers_and_batteries.pdf https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as... Up to 100 Wh / battery, up to 160 Wh with airline approval. All laptops I know of have a 100 Wh battery at most. Macbook pro's used to have that size, but the latest gen has a smaller capacity. You can carry spare batteries, as long as they are for "personal use".
    - Spartan-S63 9y ago
      Word on the street was that the new MacBook Pros came with shrunken batteries because they couldn't get the terraced design to fit within design spec (thermals, I think) like they did with the MacBook. Hopefully in their next design iteration, they'll be able to fit a 99.5Wh battery back in the laptop.
    - rbanffy 9y ago
      Well... 100Wh at Core i7 + discrete GPU consumption is one thing, but if only an Atom-like core is half-asleep while I edit a field and the big cores only kick in while rendering a page, I would expect generously more than 10 hours.
KamelAufAbwegen 9y ago
I'm wondering why it's not possible to run some cores multithreaded and some just singlethreaded? I would like to see something like that.

rbanffy 9y ago

If I built a computer as heavy as my first Thinkpad using a modern processor and filling the rest of the machine with batteries, I'd have a month of continuous use ;-)

froh42 9y ago
There are regulations on how much li ion battey a machine may have to be allowed in the cabin pn a plane. I think many companies won't cross that limit. So something like the removable / modular batteries from the past might be great
- Joeri 9y ago
  https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ash/ash_programs/hazmat/passenger_info/media/Airline_passengers_and_batteries.pdf https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as... Up to 100 Wh / battery, up to 160 Wh with airline approval. All laptops I know of have a 100 Wh battery at most. Macbook pro's used to have that size, but the latest gen has a smaller capacity. You can carry spare batteries, as long as they are for "personal use".
  - Spartan-S63 9y ago
    Word on the street was that the new MacBook Pros came with shrunken batteries because they couldn't get the terraced design to fit within design spec (thermals, I think) like they did with the MacBook. Hopefully in their next design iteration, they'll be able to fit a 99.5Wh battery back in the laptop.
  - rbanffy 9y ago
    Well... 100Wh at Core i7 + discrete GPU consumption is one thing, but if only an Atom-like core is half-asleep while I edit a field and the big cores only kick in while rendering a page, I would expect generously more than 10 hours.

KamelAufAbwegen 9y ago

I'm wondering why it's not possible to run some cores multithreaded and some just singlethreaded? I would like to see something like that.