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Article: ThinkPad X30 the new champ in battery life for light laptops
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 31, 2002
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The trouble with the lightest laptops is that their batteries have
to be so small and light that they can't hold much juice. Over the
years, computer makers have learned to cram a surprising amount of
processing speed, memory, storage capacity and networking ability
into portables weighing under four pounds. But the batteries strain
to drive all this computing power for very long.
For example, the lightest portable on the market, Toshiba's svelte
Portege 2000, gets only one hour, nine minutes of battery life in my
harsh battery test, in which I turn off all power-saving features and
endlessly play music to keep the hard disk spinning. That suggests
that with power-saving on and a normal ...