Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 08:17:14 -0600 From: "John Musielewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Battery Life
Hi Terry ----- Original Message ----- From: "terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 7:17 AM Subject: Re: [LIB] Battery Life > Date: 03 Apr 2003 08:17:49 -0500 > From: terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Battery Life > > Hi John, > > I don't remember, but you can look it up at fujitsupc.com - look for > tablet pc's. They do something interesting by using the CD drive bay as > a place to put another battery. The 12 hours is by using a long-life > regular battery with the drive bay battery. I would Hmmm...I could do the same by picking up an Igo external battery, I guess, they would run a 110 a good 16 hours. But I hate doing that because it ruins the portability of the system. The perfect thing about the 110 is its the perfect size- small enough to pack around with a bunch of pcmcia cards yet large enough to easily use!! It has everything a person needs, a nice large color screen, 2 cardbus ports, a very large keyboard, irda, and a docking port. Through the cardbus ports you have usb, wireless, serial and parallel connectivity- whatever a person wants plus if you add a dock you can always just use the Libretto as the central cpu and hook up external stuff for the desktop. guess that you > would have to go with a Transmeta based system to get extreamely long > battery life. Libretto has too. The 233/266 Pentiums were small > furnaces compared with earlier and later processors. I may have > exagerated the size increase - it was just a WAG. I have read the Transmeta cpu isn't that low powered. I have seen side by side comparisons to Tiwanese Intel cpu clones and the Tiwanese beat the Transmeta hands down. But anyway, what would be wrong about using modern day technology to improve the US Libretto into a power miser and reintroducing it? If it got 14-16 hours on a single charge on a 2000 or 2400 mAh single battery under heavy use, had a 233-300 MHz Intel pentium cpu, more ram (ram could be added without affecting battery life that much), and the same footprint as the 110CT it would be a hot little machine!! I, for one, would snap a machine like that up! > > I only use my Libretto 70 for 3-4 hours on the battery, and it's been > great. But I don't depend on it for anything other than recording notes > and editing programs. I have noticed that my new 10g hard drive > increased battery life also. My 110CT is my only computer so I use it for everything (ooopps, low battery- time to connect AC- sucks!!) and it does the job quite well!!! Who made the 10 gig drive? My 15 gig was made by IBM and is also quite low power. XP also controls power really well except there is no backlight control. I've been meaning to write a windows driver for the backlight for XP but haven't gotten around to it yet. Been to busy in Dos writing all the stuff it needs!! > > terry John > > On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 01:35, John Musielewicz wrote: > > Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 00:26:53 -0600 > > From: "John Musielewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [LIB] Battery Life > > > > Hi Terry > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. 10% larger is too large. Just out of curiousity > > what is the milliamps of the battery which gives the longest life? > > > > John > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:33 PM > > Subject: Re: [LIB] Battery Life > > > > > > > Date: 02 Apr 2003 17:33:18 -0500 > > > From: terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: Re: [LIB] Battery Life > > > > > > John, > > > > > > Take a look at the Fujitsu LifeBook P1000,2000. About 10% bigger, > > > Transmeta 800+ processors, and 8 - 12 hours on batteries in various > > > configurations - with your choice of windoze versions. Sorry it's not a > > > Libretto tho :>( Also, the prices aren't real bad $1200 - $1500 USD. > > > > > > terry > > > > > > On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 14:43, John Musielewicz wrote: > > > > Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:38:25 -0600 > > > > From: "John Musielewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Subject: Battery Life > > > > > > > > I love my little 110CT. It is such a cool machine. It zips along XP, > > runs my > > > > programs super fast with its speedy little 233 MHz pentium mmx and > > wopping > > > > 64 meg of ram. The size is absolutely perfect and the screen surburb for > > > > reading ebooks. However, there is one thing that bugs me. At 4 hours the > > > > battery life is just too short!! I need about 8 to 10 hours. There is > > not a > > > > notebook that compares to the 110CT out there with the kind of battery > > life > > > > I need except the Hewlett Packard 200LX and that, being a XT and too > > small, > > > > would not be useable. 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