From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] handheld computers From: Fco.J.Ballesteros In-Reply-To: <79db0b44d214dd202bc8729693d3f054@vitanuova.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 20:39:33 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c586f72e-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > it seems a pity that these kinds of characteristics seem inevitable > casualties of the progress in other areas. The problem is that even if you dont use the xtra features, battery is still scarce. I tried the ipaq w/o using light, sound, nor any other fancy feature. The battery w/ Plan 9 takes a single day to expire for me. Didn't try w/ Windows, but I wouldnt say it would last once week. The downsized palm zire I bought for agenda and the like takes like several weeks to get below 100% of battery. That's why my bitsy is now a desktop system, sic.