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The title is misleading, it should be 50% more battery life than did their predecessors. What this means is that if their predecessor's lower power usage offer
by Zikes 13y ago
The title is misleading, it should be 50% more battery life than did their predecessors. What this means is that if their predecessor's lower power usage offered an additional 10 minutes of power, Haswell will now offer an extra 15 minutes.
- gjm11 13y agoWhy do you say it means that? It doesn't look to me as if it means any such thing. I think it means: if you got 4 hours of battery life before, you may be able to get 6 hours of battery life with Haswell processors. (But I bet this will be "up to 50% extra" and will be based on overoptimistic assumptions about the power consumption of other components.) I can't find any source with a more direct quotation of what Rani Borkar said, unfortunately.
- Zikes 13y agoIt's literally the first line of the article. > Intel's upcoming family of Core processors, code-named Haswell, will offer 50 per cent more battery life in laptops than did their Ivy Bridge predecessors, according to the company.