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From: tnaa7@isuvax.iastate.edu (Steven M. Knapp)
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Subject: Re: Laptops with long battery life?
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Date: 7 May 91 01:41:17 GMT
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In article <28159B49.6904@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu>, gooley@sunc7.cs.uiuc.edu (Markian "Party Mineral" Gooley) writes:
>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?)
>
The original T1000 will meet simple needs..and it is real cheep!
Or get another laptop w/ a few extra B-packs.......My T1000SE w/ one spare pack
is good for over 4 hours...and switching batteries is real easy....it turns
itself off when the battery is through, I relpace the pack, and then I turn it
back on again...back right where I left off..

I know hard disks and lighted displays take alot of power....

				sTEVE