Monday, December 19, 2005

Push for 8-hour battery life

The race is on to deliver all-day battery life for notebooks. While Intel believes that Napa platform notebooks can push notebooks to or past an average of 5 hours of battery life in 2006, it's still shooting for more. The company has said it would like to see standard-issue business notebooks <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1902473,00.asp?kc=ewnws121605dtx1k0000599">run for 8 hours on a single charge</A> of a standard battery versus today's average of around four hours.

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