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Battery life. Compute has overshot battery life.
by rogerkirkness 3y ago
Battery life. Compute has overshot battery life.
- Affric 3y agoIs it battery life and thermals?
- rogerkirkness 3y agoThat too!
- jbverschoor 3y agoMaximum power dissipation 0.79 Watt
- actionfromafar 3y ago99% of compute power is wasted. You just know a 1GHz Z80 mobile phone with SymbOS would be smooth as silk...
- nxobject 3y agoIn line with that, it’s crazy to think how portable 8-bits could once be powered off standard AA batteries…
- jhbadger 3y agoOh, even 32-bit machines (the pre-ARM Palm PDAs in the 1990s which used the 32-bit Dragonball processor) used standard alkaline batteries (3 AAAs)
- Cosi1125 3y agoMaybe not 8-bit, but my HP 200LX runs months on 2 AAs and is only moderately bulkier (thicker) than a modern smartphone. With a CF card you can have hundreds of excellent DOS programs/games on it.