Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Battery life: The ABC's of YMMV

Wonder why your laptop batteries don't seem to last as advertised?

Here's an article in Newsweek on how battery life is figured, which illustrates exactly what "your mileage may vary" means.

False advertising? You figure it out, but first tell me if there's any other kind.

(For the record, my Aspire One gets about two hours per battery charge.)

1 comment:

chucker said...

I've only had my Acer Aspire One for about 10 days but 2-3 hours seems about what I get from the battery.

It has taught me to ask when I go places if they have WiFi.

(I guess the City and Post Publishing dropped that plan to make the whole area WiFi. Too expensive? Non-revenue generating? All of the above?)

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