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24 Hour Laptops From HP?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i'll-believe-it-when-i-can-fly-to-tokyo-and-back dept.

daveyboy79 writes "This article from the BBC shows HP's new laptop, the HP EliteBook 6930p. Configured with several options, such as the 80Gb SSD and the mercury-free LED displays, it allows users to get 24 hours of non-stop computing." The real question is, are we talking 24 hours of word processing? Or 24 hours of actually using your computer?

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  1. Re:Marketing speak by houghi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, perhaps you should RTFA.

    From TFA
    The company said the record battery life arises from a combination of HP engineering and energy-efficient notebook components such as Intel solid-state hard drives (SSD) and mercury-free LED displays.

    The optional HP Illumi-Lite LED display boosts battery run time by up to four hours compared to traditional LCD displays, while the Intel SSD provides about a 7% increase in battery life compared to traditional hard drives.

    It is worth noting that the 24-hour figure can be reached only by purchasing the ultra-capacity battery and upgrading the base model of the 6930p to include the Illumi-Lite display and 80 gigabyte version of the SSD.

    The company says in addition to preserving battery life, tests have also shown that the new Intel SSD boosts overall performance by up to 57%, and data transfer rates are almost six times faster than traditional hard drives.

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  2. Mercury free LEDs by flyingfsck · · Score: 1, Informative

    Mercury free LED.

    This is a clear case of picking something poisonous and then claiming that you don't have it in your product.

    Arsenic Free Bread - Lead Free Water...

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  3. Re:Weight and size? by BlueParrot · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/pscmisc/vac/us/product_pdfs/6930p.pdf

    2.1 kg it would appear. That's still a bit heavy for my taste.

  4. He got it from old news. by emj · · Score: 2, Informative

    Some old slashdot story: Are SSDs Really More Power Efficient? . But that's actually old news now even the 80GB SATA SSDs will be power efficient something like 1.5W while seeking, and being able to push 125MB/s sustained.

    1. Re:He got it from old news. by pipatron · · Score: 3, Informative

      And that story was debunked in the comments, and toms hardware even apologized for the bad conclusion IIRC. The issue was that the SSD worked much faster, so there was never any idle time. That's why the battery was drained faster.

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    2. Re:He got it from old news. by leshert · · Score: 3, Informative

      And that story was debunked in the comments, and toms hardware even apologized for the bad conclusion IIRC.

      YDNRC.

      What Tom's really did post was: "We followed up with the article Flash SSD Update: More Results, More Answers, which proves our conclusion correct, despite the procedural mistake."

      The updated story is at http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-hard-drive,1968.html

  5. Re:Databases for CRM. by vegiVamp · · Score: 2, Informative

    Relatively constant, yes, but constant at a much lower level than hard drives - there's nothing that needs to keep spinning.

    I'm no expert, but I imagine you need to keep few things beyond the cache under power.

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