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Originally Posted by brecklundin
I am willing to bet that there is not a laptop maker/brand out there which would not like to increase their "potential" run time using existing batteries from 4-6hrs to 10-12hrs with a fully usable outdoor mode simply by using a different display which will cost at worst the same but likely less than the current display panels being used.
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I think it's more likely that we see the same netbooks appear (with PQi screen), for the same price, but with a lower capacity battery (basically having the same batterylife too).
Industry is all about money for the big heads, and I doubt if they have found a way to improve, that they won't charge for it...
They will..most likely... It's only competition that gets them to lower price... Or perhaps I've just seen too many companies rip off people and fill their pockets on people's innocence/unawareness/or ignorance (of something they had no clue of)...
sorry about the last sentence, I could not find the right English word for it..
Also, don't expect these kind of numbers from powersaving!
Like they say there's a 2,5 to 3 watts powersaving without backlight; that translates into about 15% powersaving. On a netbook that is rated 3,5 hours you gain about 30 minutes of battery.
On a laptop chances are you save less,partly due to the chipset that consumes considerably more power than a netbook (about 4 times more;while the saving of energy on a laptop screen might be only 2x that of a netbook)