My Theory On Laptop's & Their Batteries!

Basically this is more of a rant than a question but i would like to have your feedback nonetheless.

Basically with the Intel Atom CPU around the corner i keep hearing hardware developers saying "this product uses less power so your laptop will have a longer battery life". Now am i stupid or something but i have always figure that the LCD screen will use LOADS more power than any single component in your laptop, so really all these little fixes will maybe only add a few extra minutes onto your laptops battery on a single charge.

So what iam thinking is that laptops are guaranteed the have **** battery times until we see MUCH lower power usage screens on the market....such as OLED screens maybe. Just wondering if you agree with this or am i missing some information here?

or you could just invent better batteries....darkmagician06

To be honest i think the future is less power consumption!

[QUOTE="darkmagician06"]or you could just invent better batteries....daytona_178

To be honest i think the future is less power consumption!

also most mobile cpu's use under 70watts of power if case you were wondering

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation

[QUOTE="daytona_178"]

[QUOTE="darkmagician06"]or you could just invent better batteries....darkmagician06

To be honest i think the future is less power consumption!

also most mobile cpu's use under 70watts of power if case you were wondering

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation

Well to be honest i havnt heard anything about developments in battery tech...if it doesent exist they cant really implement it!

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/nanowire-010908.html

nano batteries!!!

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/nanowire-010908.html

nano batteries!!!

darkmagician06

Very interesting! Lets just hope it doesent cost loads to make them seeing as they didnt mention production costs.

its only natural for this to happen as battery life has greatly increased post P4 days, gradually other aspects of laptops will become more efficient in time but by sorting out the biggest power consumer, the cpu, its given hardware producers more flexibility (e.g. in HDD) in the amount of power their component uses.yoyo462001

But the point i was trying to make is that surely the CPU doesent use nearly as much power a a LCD monitor.

I think i may just shut my big mouth! This guy did a report on what uses the most power on laptops and look what he found!

I think i may just shut my big mouth! This guy did a report on what uses the most power on laptops and look what he found!

daytona_178

[QUOTE="daytona_178"]

I think i may just shut my big mouth! This guy did a report on what uses the most power on laptops and look what he found!

yoyo462001

Well the DVD would only use constant power when watching DVD movies so i dont think they need improving much!

I think i may just shut my big mouth! This guy did a report on what uses the most power on laptops and look what he found!

daytona_178

if that is true how does turn you monitor brightenss down just about double the battery life in some cases?