[ltp] Thinkpad model differences

[Will McDonald]

I discovered a year and a half ago that my A21 battery lasts exactly
long enough (after dimming the display and slowing the processor, in
Windows) to watch "The World is Not Enough" on a plane (~100 min?).
Didn't have time to watch the credits, but hey.

My girlfriend's iBook, on the other hand, can show 2 hour movies without
breaking a sweat.

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 08:58:56PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> I'd be surprised if any battery powerecd machine can run a DVD spindle
> for 90 minutes.  Power savings usually means slowing down non-essential
> systems (like the CPU when it's twiddling it's thumbs waiting for
> keyboard input, etc).  I may be out of date, but running that motor that
> long may still be beyond any batteries we can buy and carry.

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