24 hour laptop battery?

[h0ughy (David)]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/articles/...857803004.html this article talks about 24 hour battery life in a laptop??? can this be for real? imagine the allnight imaging session with this one!!

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

You still have to plug in everything else anyway.... I guess it'd be great if you try to run everything off a little 17AH field battery.

[sheeny (Al)]

Yeah Dave, a while ago I was listening to a PODcast that was discussing the next generation of batteries that should achieve really long life and not degrade with charging/discharge cycles. I can't remember now if it was on a Naked Scientist program or Starstuff...

Nanotubes had something to do with it...

Anyway, I'm not totally surprized by the news but I wonder if they are really there yet...

Al.

[h0ughy (David)]

wished we could get them for the current laptops we all own...

[AlexN]

For the price it would cost to upgrade to a laptop with 24hr battery life, you could build a power box like Andrew (RB). 12v 112AH 800CCA deep cycle battery, 1000w 240v pure sinewave inverter, couple of 12v cigarette lighter sockets etc etc.. and have plenty of spare change...

That would run your mount, cameras, laptop, dew heaters etc for quite some time...

Pros:
Power for everything you use, anywhere you go.
Long battery life.

Cons:
Heavy.

[Ian Robinson]

I'm curioous about the Ah ratings on these EliteBook 6930p notebook's batteries.

I recently bought a couple of 6600 mAh batteries for my old Dell Inspirion 5100 , and as far I could see the highest available mAh rating on note book batteries is not much more than that.

I would be hesitant to buy a HP btw based on personal experience with them, but wouldn't hesitate to buy another Dell.

[multiweb (Marc)]

I wouldn't be surprised. Those new HPs are very power efficient. I have a mate who uses one to guide and capture. He runs on batteries and get 10 hours. I'm lucky to get 2-3hours on my Toshiba idling