Comments on: Objects in the Toolbar May Be Closer than They Seem

By: Rambaldi

Rambaldi — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:22:10 +0000

Device age doesn’t help, tradition batteries are expected to decay to about 80% of their original discharge time over a year, more depending on use. There is a newer style of battery which are expected to last much longer and have recently hit retail, I think it is an option on some HP laptops.

By: Nigel Dessau

Nigel Dessau — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:08:31 +0000

BAPco should help us and be that independent organization. We are asking them to think through more that one metric as their approved way of thinking about this. Let’s see what they say.

By: Nigel Dessau

Nigel Dessau — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:07:27 +0000

agreed. Funny that other would like you to know how long your PC is working if you do nothing on it. Does anyone really care to know that?

By: wpeltola

wpeltola — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:10:42 +0000

I concur with Mr. Forster that perhaps and hopefully an independent organization to test and evaluate battery performance under various working conditions will happen soon. It’s funny how my Dell D420 is supposed to get up to four hours of battery life, but only gets one hour to go from full to dead. I’m not sure if device age plays a role, but the laptop is just over a year old. Thanks for pointing this old and continuing issue out, Nigel, and I too look forward to updated industry standards and practices.

By: LS

LS — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:13:36 +0000

We are talking about battery time. The benchmark should be time. It is the easiest metric for customer to compare. Why the PC manufacturer not list the Power/Time data like those ones from the cellular phone manufacturers? For example, in the spec list of iphone, there are talk time, standby time, internet use and video/audio playbacks. Similarly, NB can have standby time, DVD/AVCHD, video/picture processing, web-surfing, 3D gaming, video streaming etc. What do customers usually do with their NBs now or will do in the near future?