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So many problems with the headline and details. "24 hours" figure seems extrapolated from "All day use". No where that I could find did Intel say "24 hours".
by arn 15y ago
So many problems with the headline and details.
"24 hours" figure seems extrapolated from "All day use". No where that I could find did Intel say "24 hours". Just that slide that says "all day use".
"Unlimited battery life" is based on the assumption that you could recharge your MacBook using ambient light. There was a demo supposedly showing a new processor running off a lightbulb/ambient light. A macbook, however, has this thing called a monitor that would also have to be powered.
- ansy 15y agoI think you are missing the even more important detail. These are all idle power consumption numbers. Intel is just telling us they've found a way to use less power when doing next to nothing. There's no claim you will see a similar magnitude improvement when rendering video or compiling a kernel. This feature is probably related to some kind of new feature in Windows 8 where tweets and emails would continue downloading even when the laptop is asleep with a low power status LED/display or sounds to notify the user. It is certainly not an indication we are going to start seeing i5 processors in cell phones in the next three years.
- mentat 15y agoThe solar panel demo was actually doing something like rendering video, though I believe you're correct that the panel wasn't powering the display device.