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From: gooley@sunc7.cs.uiuc.edu (Markian "Party Mineral" Gooley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Laptops with long battery life?
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Date: 24 Apr 91 14:50:49 GMT
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A neophyte's question:

Are there any laptops with a full-sized screen and keyboard that
also have long battery life?  What I'd like is something that can
run for more than the standard 3-4 hours and let me do text editing
or a little light programming; a hard disk wouldn't be necessary but
a floppy drive would help.  The "toy" machines that are more handhelds
than laptops simply won't do, although they seem to have good battery
life.  (By the way, what *is* it that eats so much power on these
machines?  The display?  The CPU?)

Mark.
gooley@cs.uiuc.edu