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Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the cost

Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the costYou make sense... I don't usually like your blogs, but you've stumbled into a real gem here.I personally use a laptop with a traditional drive, and store my user data on a 16G SD card. Best of both worlds apparently: my data...

Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, battery, RPM, Wattage, notebook

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

How much does a flash disk increase battery life?

How much does a flash disk increase battery life?Playing DVD and CPU usage"Playing a DVD doesn't use much CPU. The wattage is mostly the drive itself"Could you please clarify if playing a DVD doesn't use much CPU, or whether it doesn't use much power? I would like to know... because...

Tags: Corporate communications, Processors, wattage, CPU, flash-disk, video, Playing DVD, battery

Discussion threads 2007-11-15

How much does a flash disk increase battery life?

Notebooks need longer battery life I used a flash-disk based notebook for much of the '90s and loved its 10-hour battery life. You just have so much more freedom when you don't need to worry about keeping a battery charged. I've been very interested in how...

Tags: Notebook, Disk, Battery, USB Flash Drive, CPU, Wattage, Engineering, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-11-14

Additional Resources

Coin-sized nuclear batteries to revolutionise electronics

.. Nice post for a change. Good job. ntntA beautiful dream...and then reality hitspeople have been so indoctrinated that nuclear material is the most toxic substance on the planet and even saying the word will give you cancer, that this has about as much chance as a snowball in hell...

Tags: Engineering, nuclear-battery, Coin-sized nuclear-battery, alpha, cell, electronics

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Averatec D1133 All-In-One

Does a certain price make a nonmobile computer a Nettop? How about a particular CPU or case design? The Averatec D1133 All-In-One blurs the lines. Its low price and relatively slow performance make an argument for calling it a Nettop. But even though it's slow by conventional PC standards, thanks...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Monitors & displays, Averatec Inc., nettop

Product reviews 2009-09-30

AMD debuts Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs with DirectX 11 support

That's great...Now if only DX 11 were out. Seems a bit premature to me, let's hope firmware updates are easy.ATI had better get the power requirements right with this one, it doesn't matter how much money you save if you have to buy double the psu to use it.I'm going...

Tags: GPU, Radeon, DirectX, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATI Technologies Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Visibility counts: IT execs who see energy bill more likely to think long-term

IT services company CDW reports that IT executives who are privy to their company's electricity bill are twice as likely to consider energy efficiency when buying their hardware. That's one of the findings in the 2009 Energy Efficient IT Report, which compiles the results of a July survey of 752...

Tags: Information Technology, CDW Corp., Strategy, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-07

Remodelled house generates more energy than it uses

It is AMAZING how much CFLs save ....Not just in raw wattage consumption, but on reducing the heat load on air conditioning.It adds up to BIG BUCKS every month!LEDs the next big thingCFLs require about 1/3rd of the energy to produce a given light output, when compared to incandescents.LED bulbs,...

Tags: Engineering, CFL, light-emitting diode, mercury

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Maingear Pulse

PC gamers demand speed, a pursuit that--at least with current technology--runs directly counter to the idea of saving energy. HP's Firebird struck a reasonable balance between the two earlier in the year, and had we reviewed Maingear's new Pulse six months ago, it would have given the Firebird stiff competition...

Tags: Chipsets, Semiconductors, PCI, Maingear, Firebird

Product reviews 2009-07-21

PocketLD 1.3 (Mobile)

Enter your throw distance, than select manufacturer, fixture, and a lamp to calculate beam or field diameter and fc or lux. Fixture and lamp database includes beam and field angles, lamp code, wattage, color temperature, lamp hours, candela, candela multiplication factor, and website URL. Access the manufacturers website by touching...

Tags: Mobile, Lamp, Web Site, Michael Zinman, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Databases, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-07-10

LectriCalc Lite A 3.0a (Mobile)

Number one handheld computer calculator for the electrical industry.Tells electrical voltage drop over distance, both for AWG and metric cablesConduit sizingCircuit Breaker selectionGrounding ConductorsNEMA Starters/HorsepowerFind cost to run lights and equipment per day, week, month and year.Calculate amperage and wattage data.Find DC, AC single and 3-phase Kilowatts when amps, voltage...

Tags: Mobile, Voltage, Arkansoft, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Who here has ever needed to replace the battery in their notebook?

Who here has ever needed to replace the battery in their notebook?Not personallyI have never replaced a battery in a notebook that I owned, but my girlfriend tends to keep computers for a long time, and I just replaced the battery in her +/- 5 year old G4 Powerbook recently....

Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, laptop computer, battery, notebook

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

iPhone "3GS" to pack better battery

iPhone "3GS" to pack better batteryWhy high capacity battery?Surely a 15-20% gain is 15-20% however it's realized?Furthermore, a software implementation would be interesting to everyone with the current model.Goofy Name? Painted into a corner?Someone needs a life.Maybe Mary-Jo needs a hand with her Microsoft code-name blogs....RE: iPhone Why do you...

Tags: Engineering, 3G, processor, battery, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

LEDs get royal treatment, will they save the planet?

LEDs get royal treatment, will they save the planet?We have mostly CFLs in our house.They are very bright for the wattage the use. They also have different spectrum values. But the mercury is a nasty drawback. I hope the LEDs will have a similar selection of the...

Tags: Engineering, receptical, light-emitting diode, CFL

Discussion threads 2009-05-31

Advances in TREKnology

In September of 1966, the NBC television network released an iconic but short lived series that would inspire generations of inventors and technologists to bring about changes in our daily lives in the use of technology that many of us take for granted but was once...

Tags: Netscape Communicator, Star Trek, Technology, Information Technology Star Trek, McCoy, E-mail Clients, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-05-08

What to expect from Windows 7

What to expect from Windows 7MS didn't dial-back UAC prompts, they crippled themIf you're in the mode where you get fewer UAC prompts -- i.e. the default mode -- then you might as well turn UAC off. Anything that wants to can bypass UAC in that mode via the backdoor...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Signs of the Times, Redux: The World's Next Mass(ive) Medium?

In colonial times, journalism was born on broad sheets of cheap paper and the vocal chords of human marketing throats. The long sheets delivered news to those who could read. But in the middle of most cities of any size, from Derby, England, to New York, NY,...

Tags: News, Willard, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-04-29

The XO-2 is going Embedded RISC? So will everyone else!

Yesterday,  OLPC project founder Nicholas Negroponte indicated that their next generation XO-2 will almost certainly eschew it's current x86-based design and move towards one that is based on the ARM, the most common embedded RISC architecture in the world. It's used in over a billion cell...

Tags: RISC, Mobile, Intel X86, Mobile Computing, CPU, One Laptop Per Child Project, Chip, XO-2, Diamondville, Chipsets, Advertising & Promotion, Processors, Semiconductors, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-03-13

So, who wants a 1,250W PSU?

So, who wants a 1,250W PSU?Don't some of these supplies need special power connectorsThat are not usually found in a regular home? Heck, one person I was reading about said that anything above 1000W maximum draw in most homes, even very new homes, would need a special dedicated circuit hooked...

Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, Amps

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

Microsoft: Bring back the H/PC Pro

Microsoft: Bring back the H/PC ProI had a couple of those 820s ...... still have them in fact. Batteries are a big old though ...Great tool, and I used mine a lot, (I augmented the storage by spending a small fortune on 8MB CF cards) but I can't see a...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Handhelds, netbook, Microsoft Windows CE, H/PC Pro, BRING BACK, Microsoft Windows, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-27