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I have similar dreams but then a battery powered emacs machine. As a homebrew Raspberry Pi powered device will probably needs more power then a hacked phone run

• freehunter 14y ago
  A hacked phone might need less power, but it's also smaller, which means a smaller battery. My phone gets 10 hours of battery life in constant use, and my laptop gets 10 hours of battery life in constant use. Obviously the laptop has a much, much larger battery, and sits in a much, much larger footprint. Imagine phone-grade hardware with a laptop-sized battery. I'm not criticizing your version of the dream. That's the beauty of open technology, everyone can have their own dream and see that it becomes reality with a little bit of work. What I was thinking of would be about netbook sized with the majority of it being battery. Full sized keyboard mounted in, console-sized display, leaving a huge empty space inside. Without having it in my hands to actually judge battery use, all I can do is dream of a 30-hour battery on a black-and-white, unbacklit display powered by a full sized keyboard.