Date: 03 Apr 2003 09:56:06 -0500 From: terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Battery Life
John, I don't really track a lot on hardware, just pick up bits and pieces. I build my own desktops, but have used only AMD since my 486DX4/120 - so I'm not real knowledgable about Intel processors. I do know that Linus went to work for Transmeta, and, that whenever a manufacturer uses both Intel and Transmeta the battery life is significantly longer for the Transmeta chips. It's really tough to revisit old computer technology. The 50-110 Libretto is dead :( from a market point of view. If you can wait until the end of the year there may be good news on the way. Take a look at: seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/103340_vulcan09.shtml bet it uses a Transmeta tho :) My disk is a Toshiba, been fine so far for noise and performance - but I don't demand much. terry On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:23, John Musielewicz wrote: > 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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