On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:34:13 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > > Partly that. But also, people want to know how long that will *really* > last. For instance, 10 hours of battery life... doing what? Can I really > hop on a plane for ten hours and write code the whole way without > external power? Or will each minute spent recompiling Python (with the > CPU pegged) cost 2-3 minutes out of those ten hours? What if I watch > videos (on headphones, probably, given how noisy airliners are!)? > That'll surely take more power than the manufacturers estimate. > And what happens six months from now? Will battery life decay to the > point where it's no longer interesting? (Obviously it'll decay some. But > how much?) >
I bought a 12 cell battery for my Acer Once netbook & did exactly that (LHR to LAX), listening to music playing supertuxcart & reading ebooks for most of the flight. It was a life saver as the on-board entertainment from American Airlines was terrible, next time i will happily pay the extra 100 for a Virgin flight LWG to LAS instead. -- Distance doesn't make you any smaller, but it does make you part of a larger picture. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
