Intel aims for an eight-hour battery

Oh God, no !
Then I'd spend 8 hours in coffee shops and bars a day, instead of 3 ! :D

Still waiting for a time when I can literally refuel my laptop from a little bottle of ethanol. Yep, it's already possible, but not yet commercially available. Imagine refuelling your laptop like that ? - cool !
 
Get almost 8hr on my Dell D610, albiet with dual batteries (loose DVD/CD). So not such a stretch ... just have to boost primary bat pwr & reduce cpu/chipset/screen consumption a bit.
 
I get a basic of around 6-7 hours on my Fujitsu Lifebook (P7010, 100gigHD,1gig ram), and with the extra battery loaded, it goes up to around 11 - 12 hours. I feel for you all :P
 
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I can eek about 4 hours out of mine, however, that's with the screen dimmed and the CPU powered right down. It is probably because of the 1.6Ghz processor + radeon X600 - IOW, it needs significant cooling.

Or maybe because it's a **** design :)

Laptop purchases are never easy on a budget. This was the only one in my price range which had the specs I needed - basically, either an ATi or Nvidia video card capable of gaming. I kinda regret that decision now, as I really haven't had a great deal of time to even play games.

Worse still is the screen is the old type TFT, which can only do 1024x768.

Ah well, probably will sell it in a few months for £450 or so and get something more like LGM has - smaller and more portable.

I have enjoyed the laptop, don't get me wrong, however, only after a month or so did it's shortcomings start to become apparent, most noticably, the bloody keyboard. I still haven't got 100% used to typing on this tiny board. What irks me is that there's acres of unused space around the keyboard area.

http://www.technoworld.com/laptops/images/acer4100TM.bmp

Stupid design.
 
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