5 hours of battery life coming soon?

[Yousuf Khan]

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

 

[Tony Hill]

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

 

[Jan Panteltje]

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.

 

[Yousuf Khan]

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