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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Oh, I couldn't agree more! The early tablets were just ahead of their time, I think. The batteries have been improved enormously and so have touch screens. If you look at computer development these days, it's not so much speed increases as effeciency increases that is more important.
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Unfortunately, battery technology has only improved marginally over the years. Longer battery life came largely due to lower power components and power management. While everything else has increased potentially, battery output per pound is not that much better than 5 years ago. And I don't see any revolutionary development on the horizon. So we can go from 4 hours to 8 hours (partially by turning down brightness, spinning down hard disks -- or get the super expensive new disks, and limiting processor speeds, etc. All that, however, affects performance) but 2 days or more is just not in the cards for the next few years for a tablet.