That's VERY short for a netbook. AMD's X2 is a powerhog compared to an Atom and this new psuedo netbook (AMD does not have a true Atom-like low power CPU yet), gets 4 hours in Windows 7 with the standard battery 3 cell battery:
Well, I am also running 4 desktops and actually USING my system. If I sit and just watch a movie or was just surfing, I'm sure I could get at least 2 hours out of it. I also run my screen at full bright because I don't like to squint.
I guess I don't surf porn for that long, so I have never really tried. I'll let it run dead tonight and let you know what kind of runtime I get.
What the ...?
Dude, I have a Thinkpad x61 (core2duo processor, not even a low power atom) that I can get 2.5+ hours of heavy usage out of, or 5 hours of normal browsing-type tasks out of. 2 hours is eeking out maximum battery life for surfing tasks??
Something is wrong. If I run multiple stress tests simultaneously, I still get more than an hour and that's more load than any normal processing generates.
So anyhow, like I said, Ubuntu still has noticeably inferior battery life even in the netbook edition. The new generation atom systems with 6 cell batteries can easily do 7+ hours of DVD quality DiVX file playback in Windows 7 which is pretty demanding and that is without any add-on hardware like Ion or the crystal HD chipset (which would probably actually lower the battery life/system efficiency).
I haven't done much with Windows 7 yet, but I will be getting some VM test environments running it in the next month or so, should be interesting.
You won't get the same battery life if you run a Windows 7 VM in Ubuntu
I won't be running it on battery or in Ubuntu for my test environments. We are a Micro$oft shop, so I will be using VM servers and creating Windows 7 instances for development. I was simply pointing out the I will finally get some exposure to Windows 7 since I have yet to do more than see pictures of it.You won't get the same battery life if you run a Windows 7 VM in Ubuntu
argh! it makes me want to hold an infant like a baseball bat and take a swing at a grandmother!
This picture makes me want to punch infants.
i dont know that they are scrambling. I seem to recall them being stated as taking a "wait and see" approach to their tablet compared to the apple tablet.
Their marketing department "leaked" some details and I don't think it's entirely ready for prime time. But if they don't release it now while people are spending money on pointless gadgets, they might miss the buzz entirely.
the only people buying the ipad right now are early adopters (major technophiles). Early adopters only make up a fraction of the people that will purchase over the life cycle of a given product. There are gonna be a bunch more (and arguably better) options by end of year.
couldnt you set up a 10.4" xenarc panel and a full blown pc for less than that? not bashing, whatever works I guess.
Yeah but then its harder to steal than an iPad and its more servicable
I think iPad works the same as an iPhone or iPod, connecting via iTunes which works on a PC.I saw an iPad today... the guy told me you can't hook it up to a PC and upload content...
Really?
Who buys something like this?
But can you just upload $hit to it without iTunes? It doesn't act as a plain old storage device? My Nano does.
Unfortunately you can't do that with an iPhone. I was hoping to be able to use my iTimeWaster as a flash drive, but nope.
Well that's COMPLETELY f**king retarded.
Yeah, but it has Galaga,...Galaga MuthaFukkah !!
You are a blessed man, I tip my hat to you Sir.Galaga rules.
Of course my local Mexican restaurant has Galaga too.
man oh man do i want a picture of an iPad that's been BSOD
Its secondary eBook device at best without an eReader mode screen (e-ink/Pixel Qi/etc). It would be like saying a laptop or netbook is a primary eBook competitor just because they offer an application to read the formats...a backlit TFT LCD is not acceptable for heavy reading. iPad v2 will likely have an acceptable screen - Apple's MO to get suckers for all they can instead of doing it right the first time around.
Netbooks will easily outsell eReaders this year and they aren't overhyped and started with a single model/single player for over a year (Asus' first EEE PC model). Jobs was wrong, netbook are better and their market grew faster than any PC product his company has ever made. The first few years of the netbook market grew faster than the iPod which is their greatest success. Netbooks growth is leveling off this year but they'll still easily beat this new segment (IDC is projecting 47 million netbooks sold for 2010, 2009 was 33 million).
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Notion Ink's Adam Tablet (Tegra 2) will have a multi-mode Pixel Qi LCD and MEMS displays should come later this year:
