Revison My A#$
With technology it is the best of times, it is the worst of times and we all know it.
X-BOX 360 or PS3
Blu Ray or HD DVD
DVCPro HD or HDV or HD this 720p 1080i blah blah
FW 800, USB 2.0, Sata Wifi or WiMax … blah blah
Then with computers it’s a new chip every other month especially in the laptop realm…
Notebooks are no longer the wimpy little brother of a powerful desktop dynasty we have long surpassed the days of the road warrior commuting to and fro work utilizing his glorified typewriter for spreadsheets and documents…
That was the Stone Age but here in Core Duo Age our notebooks serve as portable recording studios, editing bays, gaming rigs and vfx boutiques.
Remember the days of the 6gb HD look at us now 100 and even 200Gb HD are standard with most desktop replacement. We have glowing keyboards, 64-bit computing and the ability to have more than 2GB of RAM in our portable workhorses.
Yet with all the improvements one thing has remain constant the true achilles heel of a notebook computer even more so than cooling issues and that is the battery.
Whether it’s exploding batteries, swelling batteries or just plain crappy batteries there has yet to be some revolutionary advancement to the battery of our laptop.
Keep the howling to a low I know the powerful the machine becomes the more energy it is going to consumed which only adds insults to injury.
There is no excuse for battery life under normal usage to be less than 3 hours and at least half that time during extreme usage.
Now is the time for innovation Apple and to be fair the rest of you computer manufactures to give us in the laptop universe safer, better and stronger batteries.
Or maybe this lies outside the boundaries of computer manufactures and will fall into the lap of some company to design some uber battery or even better some clever individual somewhere in a garage will design a new battery or at least an additional source of portable power that plugs into the usb, firewire or PC Express port.
So while we are all dreaming of what specs the next revision of our favorite laptop *MacBook Pro for me will have I hope for better battery life….
X-BOX 360 or PS3
Blu Ray or HD DVD
DVCPro HD or HDV or HD this 720p 1080i blah blah
FW 800, USB 2.0, Sata Wifi or WiMax … blah blah
Then with computers it’s a new chip every other month especially in the laptop realm…
Notebooks are no longer the wimpy little brother of a powerful desktop dynasty we have long surpassed the days of the road warrior commuting to and fro work utilizing his glorified typewriter for spreadsheets and documents…
That was the Stone Age but here in Core Duo Age our notebooks serve as portable recording studios, editing bays, gaming rigs and vfx boutiques.
Remember the days of the 6gb HD look at us now 100 and even 200Gb HD are standard with most desktop replacement. We have glowing keyboards, 64-bit computing and the ability to have more than 2GB of RAM in our portable workhorses.
Yet with all the improvements one thing has remain constant the true achilles heel of a notebook computer even more so than cooling issues and that is the battery.
Whether it’s exploding batteries, swelling batteries or just plain crappy batteries there has yet to be some revolutionary advancement to the battery of our laptop.
Keep the howling to a low I know the powerful the machine becomes the more energy it is going to consumed which only adds insults to injury.
There is no excuse for battery life under normal usage to be less than 3 hours and at least half that time during extreme usage.
Now is the time for innovation Apple and to be fair the rest of you computer manufactures to give us in the laptop universe safer, better and stronger batteries.
Or maybe this lies outside the boundaries of computer manufactures and will fall into the lap of some company to design some uber battery or even better some clever individual somewhere in a garage will design a new battery or at least an additional source of portable power that plugs into the usb, firewire or PC Express port.
So while we are all dreaming of what specs the next revision of our favorite laptop *MacBook Pro for me will have I hope for better battery life….
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