Friday, June 7, 2002
Toshiba e740 battery life
Posted by Jason Dunn in "THOUGHT" @ 07:47 AM
http://www.sprinklerhead.com/
Jeremiah Owen has published an update on the battery life of his e740. I've asked him to do a modified version of his test so it will jive with my tests, and I'll understand the battery life better. But the words "No impressive gains" spring to mind.
"Well the initial battery numbers are in and...........well they are in line with what I said before. With a looped mp3 play back, screen set to 1/3 brightness, we got a little over 4 hours before it had not enough juice to read from CF anymore. Now before you charge with pitch forks and torches to Intel's front gates let me get more testing done I honestly think the screen and lack of the fact that Windows Media player is not encoded to take advantage of X-Scale features and only use the power needed. Until eiher OS is rewritten to take advantage of these features or we get some new low power screen technology, no one and I mean no one is going to get huge life increases unless they compliment their units with bigger batteries, which by the way Toshiba is planning to do. So the short of it if you can handle current Pocket PC battery life you will be fine with new Toshiba's."
Jeremiah Owen has published an update on the battery life of his e740. I've asked him to do a modified version of his test so it will jive with my tests, and I'll understand the battery life better. But the words "No impressive gains" spring to mind.
"Well the initial battery numbers are in and...........well they are in line with what I said before. With a looped mp3 play back, screen set to 1/3 brightness, we got a little over 4 hours before it had not enough juice to read from CF anymore. Now before you charge with pitch forks and torches to Intel's front gates let me get more testing done I honestly think the screen and lack of the fact that Windows Media player is not encoded to take advantage of X-Scale features and only use the power needed. Until eiher OS is rewritten to take advantage of these features or we get some new low power screen technology, no one and I mean no one is going to get huge life increases unless they compliment their units with bigger batteries, which by the way Toshiba is planning to do. So the short of it if you can handle current Pocket PC battery life you will be fine with new Toshiba's."
