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A long standing dream of mine is a laptop that will run a whole workday on one charge. This announcement sounds like this could finally happen in the next year
by Derbasti 15y ago
A long standing dream of mine is a laptop that will run a whole workday on one charge.
This announcement sounds like this could finally happen in the next year or two. I look forward to the day when I can leave my battery charger at home.
- muyuu 15y agoMy AAO on an 8-cell battery already does this. It gets around 10 hours if I set screen brightness to medium-low.
- Derbasti 15y agoI spend 40 hours a week on that computer. I would rather not have to strain my eyes every workday for years. But I guess for less intensive use your laptop is already sufficient.
- msh 15y agoThe cromebook does this, as does the new macbook pros (if you define workday as 8 hours).
- runevault 15y agoHaven't REALLY pushed it yet but the new thinkpads do amazingly well on battery with a 9 cell, and if you get one of those batteries that use the optical slot it would probably last 2 days. Biggest battery drain I've found so far is (surprise, surprise) flash. Compiling is a hit but not an insane one, using Visual Studio on a WPF app.
- sp332 15y agoApple's eMate 300 had 12 hours of battery life, a keyboard and a touchscreen with handwriting and shape recognition back in 1997. And I tested the battery life myself. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Emate_300 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Emate_300