AMD — "We're Not Entirely Honest" About Batteries

Slatterz writes "In an apparent attack of the bleeding-obvious, an AMD rep has come clean and admitted (on behalf of the industry) that notebook and phone battery life figures are completely unreliable. AMD's senior vice president Nigel Dessau says that 'we are not being entirely honest with users about what PC battery life they can expect to actually experience.' He says AMD will now use a combination of idle time (where the machine is left to sit idle, and timed to see how long it takes for the battery to go dead), and 3DMark06 to measure battery life. Great in theory but some of the industry already bases battery figures on a two-test measurement, and the results are still wildly inaccurate."

on the other hand..

[pak9rabid]

..at least they're being honest about not being entirely honest..

what?

[TheCreeep]

I'm shocked! SHOCKED I tell you! You mean the phones/laptops don't run as long as advertised? I can't believe this! It's impossible! Next you'll tell me a 8GB pendrive/SSD holds less than 2^33 bytes.

Re:Not that big of a deal

[Eunuchswear]

You naughty boy, you read the article.

Re:Not that big of a deal

[digitalunity]

That's the paradox. Nobody reads the articles, but the slashdot effect is still in full force.

Crazy eh?

FYI, I already read this a few days ago. That's why my comment was funny!

It was just a joke. A goddamned joke. Mother help me.

Re:Isn't this simple?

[reashlin]

Do I also get to leave it plugged in for this test?

Re:Not that big of a deal

[Shakrai]

but there's lawyers out there who are right now wondering how to make a class action case out of this.

Fixed that for you ;)