Intel pushing for eight-hour laptops, sooner rather than later
By Donald Melanson 
posted June 7th 2005 5:29AM
posted June 7th 2005 5:29AM
CNET's reporting that Intel recently moved up a deadline it set for laptop makers by two years, to 2008 — that's the date they want to see thin-and-light laptops that can run for eight hours straight, without an external battery. The current standard for laptops is around four hours (though no one's told our laptops about that). To hit the magic 8-hour mark, manufacturers are looking at a number of different options, including better batteries and more power-efficient displays, hard drives and processors, like Intel's upcoming Yonah laptop chip.
Nice timing with the Intel-Apple pairing?
0.5" Thick 12" Widescreen iBook with 10 hour battery life? Yes please!
Apple's Intel move has been planned for a long time (over 5 years) They just kept the secret very well.
I think they already have their mind on what CPU they're going to use for their new Intel products already.
Snarfy
the super small sony one already claims 10h battery life, right?
Yeah they claim it ......they allways do!
But in reality all battery life goes dead when you need it the most right....ipod, nokia etc. etc.
laptop with oled display would be nice ... cheap and using less energy
HAHHAHAHA!
To hit the magic 8-hour mark, manufacturers are looking at a number of different options, such as taping two laptops together and removing all drives:)
Oled display hopefully
Yonah processor
4-10 gig (at least) flash memory
Still lithium ion (but polymers) batteries i bet
wonder what else people ?
sony vaio, the first ever notebook to reach eight hours*
*using included AC power adaptor.
My Sony T2XP runs 6,5 to 7 hrs on a single charge, 5 hrs if you play DVDs or streaming video.
Yeah, this doesn't seem too far out... both Sony and IBM/Lenovo (and probably others) already make laptops with 7.5 hour battery life. Even my non-Centrino, hot-ass P4-M laptop can get 4 hours with its 12 cell battery (I have the 8 cell so I only get 3), and it's 2 years old.
This is the real reason Apple ditched the PowerPC - there is no question that Intel's got everybody beat in laptop chips (not just in power consumption but in performance too), and they're only getting better.
Intel is setting deadlines? What are they going to do, quit selling chips to manufacturers who don't make it?
biggest single change that needs to happen is for a screen that dont need a backlight and that only use power when updating whats on the screen.
anything else is allready been pushed into the very minimum zone unless someone can come up with a cheap, reliable, solid state storage media (face it, flash is neither if one is to use it as a hardrive replacement).
Apple didn't ditch powerpc because of the laptop battery time....my g4 ibook with 12" screen gets 6 hours of battery time on a full charge....they changed over because they couldn't cram a g5 into a powerbook
You can get just over eight hours out of an IBM T40 (likely the same with a T41 or T42) with the bigger main battery and the drive bay battery...
OLEDs! OLEDs! OLEDs! OLEDs!
Hurry up, damnit!
That's great news but personally, I'm not holding my breath. My solution was to go out an get a batterygeek external laptop battery which is currently giving my laptop an additional 7+ hours of run time per charge. By the way, when are they going to come out with that new age high tech fuel cell battery that will provide a full week of run time per charge?