From: dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Campaign for Tablet which runs Emacs closes soon
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:16:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gjubbnn8nbj5.fsf@W0144758.usac.mmm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20141211131924395544039@bob.proulx.com
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
> J. David Boyd wrote:
>> Robert Thorpe writes:
>> > J. David Boyd writes:
>> > > A friend of mine has a Samsung brand of Android tablet. Gets
>> > > about 8 hours battery life. When he connects the keyboard, it
>> > > adds ~7 more hours batter life. That's the kind of keyboard I
>> > > would like.
>> >
>> > I expect most tablets would give better battery life with a
>> > keyboard. Capacitive touch-screens use quite a lot of power.
>> > There's been a lot of work recently on reducing that. It's
>> > getting better gradually I believe. I work for a company that
>> > used to design chips to drive them.
>>
>> On the Samsung it gets longer runtimes because there is another
>> battery in the keyboard....
>
> Sounds like the ASUS Transformer tablet keyboard combination. There
> is an auxilary battery in the keyboard. While the keyboard is
> attached it uses the keyboard battery first. I know someone with one
> of these and they like it quite a bit.
>
> http://www.trustedreviews.com/asus-eee-pad-transformer-review-keyboard-and-battery-life-page-2
>
> Bob
Hmm, you're right. Wasn't Samsung, was ASUS Transformer. The owner loves
it. He gets about 15 hours between charges using it plugged into the
keyboard. And the keyboard feels pretty good, as well.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-12 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-05 17:29 Campaign for Tablet which runs Emacs closes soon Rainer Hansen
2014-12-05 17:50 ` J. David Boyd
2014-12-05 20:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-12-05 20:42 ` Drew Adams
2014-12-05 21:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-12-05 21:27 ` Drew Adams
2014-12-06 0:03 ` Artur Malabarba
2014-12-06 18:47 ` Alan Schmitt
2014-12-06 21:03 ` Milan Zamazal
2014-12-05 21:22 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-12-09 17:00 ` J. David Boyd
2014-12-09 18:20 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-12-10 3:00 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-12-10 13:27 ` J. David Boyd
2014-12-11 2:58 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-12-11 15:18 ` J. David Boyd
2014-12-11 20:26 ` Bob Proulx
2014-12-12 15:16 ` J. David Boyd [this message]
2014-12-06 0:05 ` Artur Malabarba
[not found] ` <mailman.15340.1417810943.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-12-10 22:41 ` Anssi Saari
[not found] <mailman.15329.1417800918.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-12-06 4:16 ` photobugsm
2014-12-06 16:19 ` Norbert Melzer
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