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>You'd be lucky to get 40 minutes of battery life from a PowerPC based Mac laptop at the time when Intel laptops could run for a few hours. iBook had 5 hours o
by nojito 6y ago
>You'd be lucky to get 40 minutes of battery life from a PowerPC based Mac laptop at the time when Intel laptops could run for a few hours.
iBook had 5 hours of battery life.
Inspiron 500m had 3 hours of battery life.
- fortran77 6y ago> "if you're actually using the PowerBook, a charge won't last nearly that long. Apple claims that the battery life is 3 hours and 45 minutes for a combination of wireless Web browsing and editing a text document, but only 2 hours and 15 minutes for DVD playback." Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/powerbook-battery-shenanigans/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/powerbook-battery-shenanigans/
- nojito 6y agoWhich is true of literally every single device ever released. Intel didn't win the power performance game in laptops until Core Duo was released.
- acdha 6y agoAlso DVD decoding was an edge case — spinning up an extra drive and expensive decoding until the hardware, drivers, and OS all supported direct hardware decoding — which was relevant to people on planes but almost nowhere else in normal life.