Pixel Qi conjuring up black magic technology for 40-hour laptops
By Darren Murph 
posted November 29th 2008 3:40PM
posted November 29th 2008 3:40PM
Sure, you can go out and get yourself a laptop right now that'll go 12.5-hours strong, but what if your portable computer could nearly outlast your Aigo A215? While L's mythical quad core lappie came close in theory, Mary Lou Jepsen's (the former CTO at OLPC) startup is hoping to eventually create a machine that can last between 20 and 40-hours between charges. Pixel Qi is being pretty closelipped right now (and understandably so) about what exactly it has going on, but we get the idea the secret sauce is in a highly efficient display that will require far less power than traditional LCDs. The best part? We could see one of these longevous notebooks in the pipeline as early as 2H 2009, so we'd probably start stocking up on Red Bull right about now.
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They just want to suck you into 40-hour Cave Story marathons, those conniving bastards.
50 hours is very possible if you don't use conventional X86 processors and Windows.
The tandy M100 from 1984 ran 20 hours on 4 AAs it likely would run for days on lithium batteries
They could use an arm processor or an embedded PPC and run linux with a very light WM.
Intel may like to claim their atom cpu only uses 3watt but most Arm processors only use a few hundred milliwatts.
They've updated their blog: http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2009/02/02/product-freeze/
The product is described as a 10-inch display with insane power-savings and fully saturated color fidelity. The display also has an e-paper grayscale state with video refresh rates. It's basically the XO-1 laptop's screen beefed up.