Sony Pledges More Accurate Laptop Battery Figures

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 7, 2008 @08:18PM from the trust-but-verify dept.

Slatterz writes "Ever wondered why you never get the 10 hours of battery life advertised with your new ultraportable? Battery life ratings have been a joke for years, so it's interesting to hear that one big vendor is picking up its game. PC Authority says Sony is abandoning the usual (and wildly misleading) JEITA method for coming up with those 10+ hour battery numbers (they're still using JEITA, but not the usual way). Interestingly, the story has links showing the old and new steps Sony takes to come up with those battery predictions. It's good to see the industry coming clean on this issue."

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Re:How is this for marketing? by Swizec · 2008-09-07 21:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

*In sleep mode.
Not to be insensitive here, but Macs have changed "sleep mode" for "hibernate" years ago and I can vouch that my Mac has an infinite battery life in what the OS calls sleep mode, and I do believe that's the proper way for going about it, when it's asleep as far as the user is concerned the damn thing is off and shouldn't be wasting batteries.

Now I understand something like Windows can't get out of hibernate as quickly as a mac (or probably linux as well) can, hell when I was toying with hibernate years ago it wouldn't even come out of it at all, but that's also very wrong.