AMD promises new Turions will bring 5-hour battery life - TechSpot News
http://www.techspot.com/news/24678-A...tery-life.html

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On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:33:41 -0400, Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)>
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>AMD promises new Turions will bring 5-hour battery life - TechSpot News
>http://www.techspot.com/news/24678-A...tery-life.html

As they always say, "I'll believe it when I see it!".

Actually getting 5 hour battery life is easy these days, just build a
laptop with really ultra-low voltage processors, a 12" or 13" screen,
low-end video and a 4200rpm hard drive, then connect it all to the
same battery you would usually find in a laptop with a 17" screen.
Bingo, instant 5-hour battery life. Of course, you also end up with a
8lbs notebook with only a 13" screen, and no one is going to actually
BUY such a laptop, but it's certainly do-able for presentation
purposes.

Hopefully AMD announcement is based off a little more substance than
that!
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On a sunny day (Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:55:32 -0400) it happened Tony Hill
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>On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:33:41 -0400, Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)>
>wrote:
>
>>AMD promises new Turions will bring 5-hour battery life - TechSpot News
>>http://www.techspot.com/news/24678-A...tery-life.html
>
>As they always say, "I'll believe it when I see it!".
>
>Actually getting 5 hour battery life is easy these days, just build a
>laptop with really ultra-low voltage processors, a 12" or 13" screen,
>low-end video and a 4200rpm hard drive, then connect it all to the
>same battery you would usually find in a laptop with a 17" screen.
>Bingo, instant 5-hour battery life. Of course, you also end up with a
>8lbs notebook with only a 13" screen, and no one is going to actually
>BUY such a laptop, but it's certainly do-able for presentation
>purposes.

Yes -
Almost 8 hours:
http://www.laptop.org/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml
;-)

(500mA max current @ 6V is <= 3W, 22.8 Watt.hours / 3 is => 7.6 Hours.

Tony Hill wrote:
> As they always say, "I'll believe it when I see it!".

> Actually getting 5 hour battery life is easy these days, just build a
> laptop with really ultra-low voltage processors, a 12" or 13" screen,
> low-end video and a 4200rpm hard drive, then connect it all to the
> same battery you would usually find in a laptop with a 17" screen.
> Bingo, instant 5-hour battery life. Of course, you also end up with a
> 8lbs notebook with only a 13" screen, and no one is going to actually
> BUY such a laptop, but it's certainly do-able for presentation
> purposes.

> Hopefully AMD announcement is based off a little more substance than
> that!

Actually, it looks like Intel is claiming the same battery life for its
Santa Rosa notebook platform. I suspect it's got as much to do with
low-power chipsets as it does with low-power CPUs too.

Yousuf Khan

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