Re: disk speeds and tweaks
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 05:28, Dan Christensen wrote:
> I just got a Dell with a 5400 rpm drive, and a 2.0 GHz cpu. I was
> quite worried that these would cause my battery life to be horrible.
> Well, I haven't done a careful test, but apm estimates that I'll get
> a bit over 3 hours on one battery, which is not too bad. (On battery
> power the cpu runs as 1.2 GHz.)
3 hours seems to be what customers expect. So faster CPUs and hard drives get
combined with advances in battery technology to deliver the same battery
life.
It's a pity you can't get new tech batteries for older laptops and have 12
hours of power.
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