On 9/20/2006, 11:39:22 PM EDT, derek wrote:
Even the braille lites, with braille displays active constantly, could
give
30 or so hours between charges.
True, of course you've also got a loads slower processor to deal with.
If you turn the monitor and hard drive off on a modern laptop, although
all parts will stop moving, you'll still not get that kind of life
anyway, because they run at a much faster clock speed. Granted, most of
the modern laptops, such as Centrinos and Turions, are pretty efficient
about things, and step the processor down when
it's not in demand to save battery life. My HP does this, and I can get
almost 8 hours of battery out of it with wireless and bluetooth on, when
I'm not doing terribly much that requires a lot of clock cycles.
I've got a gig of ram, and it didn't seem to matter about battery life
when I upgraded the memory. I thought it would, but really, I haven't
noticed a difference on any of the laptops I've upgraded as far as
battery life is concerned.
There are some laptops around that claim 14 hours of battery life with a
monitor, which does kind of scare me...
Of course, the more you do, the faster the
clock speed and the less battery life you'll get, unless you clamp down
on it and force it to always use a slower clock speed.
Then there are the PDA/phone combos: they'll go for ages. If I were to
put my phone in offline mode, and just use it for it's other functions,
it'd probably run for a week with no charge.
It gets about 3.5 days between charge with the phone bit on. Of course,
that goes down loads when you start making and taking phone calls...
If I could find a decent cymbian program that would let me read books
without being interrupted by the screen saver, put placemarks in the
text and have a decent search feature, that would be nice. I could just
sort of plug headphones in and read all day, and not really worry about
resources much.
The problem with doing this with stock stuff is that, when the stupid
screen saver comes on, I get thrownh all the way back to the top of the
text, and it's really quite hard to find your place on such a tiny
little keypad with no nice things like page up and page down, or easy
ways to jump between paragraphs and such.
. I guess this wouldn't happen for sited folks, since
they'd be constantly scrolling down the screen, which of course Talks
doesn't do when you issue a read command.
But, because of it's size and longevity, it'd be great
for doing this sort of thing...
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