AMD promises new Turions will bring 5-hour battery life - TechSpot News

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:33:41 -0400, Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>AMD promises new Turions will bring 5-hour battery life - TechSpot News
>

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. 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!

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. 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