by James S » Oct 15, 2003 @ 5:21pm
I get 3.5 hours with WiFi turned off and the backlight at full power. This is while taking notes in class, which runs the CPU up to 100% useage because of all the ink calculations. The battery never has gone below 50% in any of my 2 hours of back to back classes.
I'm POSITIVE that I could play Quake 3 or Warcraft3 for 3 hours straight.
I've never tried any emulators like N64 or PSX. It's a 1GHz Centrino, which is equivalent to a 1.4 to 1.6GHz Pentium4m in processing power.
If you're looking to really play some games and such then I'd recommend HP's TC1100, as it has a 1GHz Centrino and a Geforce4 420 Go. It's available now, and will ship by November. My Motion M1300 only has integrated graphics, but plays Warcraft 3 and Quake 3 and Homeworld perfectly. I don't play that many games anymore, so I don't know much about the latest stuff.
But you could get anywhere between 3 to 4 and a half hours on one battery. Bring another battery along and hot swap it in standby and you've got a full day of Tablet useage.
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