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Re: Campaign for Tablet which runs Emacs closes soon


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: Campaign for Tablet which runs Emacs closes soon
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:26:37 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

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



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