From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Campaign for Tablet which runs Emacs closes soon Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:16:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87fvcm51uf.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <20141211131924395544039@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418397455 30079 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2014 15:17:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:17:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 16:17:28 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzRyB-0001cg-D1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:17:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57801 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzRyA-0006wt-R1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:17:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47577) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzRxv-0006wG-Ts for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:17:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzRxq-0006K9-GJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:17:11 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42430) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzRxq-0006K4-9Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:17:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzRxh-0000qI-LI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:16:57 +0100 Original-Received: from 169.15.136.127 ([169.15.136.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:16:57 +0100 Original-Received: from dboyd2 by 169.15.136.127 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:16:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 169.15.136.127 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GzJJSMCjaiMGg8N9D6BIG+jgV2E= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101543 Archived-At: Bob Proulx 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