24 Hour Laptops From HP? 205
daveyboy79 writes "This article from the BBC shows HP's new laptop, the HP EliteBook 6930p. Configured with several options, such as the 80Gb SSD and the mercury-free LED displays, it allows users to get 24 hours of non-stop computing." The real question is, are we talking 24 hours of word processing? Or 24 hours of actually using your computer?
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Mercury free LEDs (Score:2, Informative)
Mercury free LED.
This is a clear case of picking something poisonous and then claiming that you don't have it in your product.
Arsenic Free Bread - Lead Free Water...
Re:Weight and size? (Score:4, Informative)
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/pscmisc/vac/us/product_pdfs/6930p.pdf [hp.com]
2.1 kg it would appear. That's still a bit heavy for my taste.
He got it from old news. (Score:3, Informative)
Some old slashdot story: Are SSDs Really More Power Efficient? [slashdot.org]. But that's actually old news now even the 80GB SATA SSDs will be power efficient [techreport.com] something like 1.5W while seeking, and being able to push 125MB/s sustained.
Re:He got it from old news. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Databases for CRM. (Score:2, Informative)
Relatively constant, yes, but constant at a much lower level than hard drives - there's nothing that needs to keep spinning.
I'm no expert, but I imagine you need to keep few things beyond the cache under power.
Re:He got it from old news. (Score:4, Informative)
And that story was debunked in the comments, and toms hardware even apologized for the bad conclusion IIRC.
YDNRC.
What Tom's really did post was: "We followed up with the article Flash SSD Update: More Results, More Answers, which proves our conclusion correct, despite the procedural mistake."
The updated story is at http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-hard-drive,1968.html [tomshardware.com]