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Title: 20 Years Ago, The MacBook Air’s Battery Would Have Only Lasted 2.5 Seconds Post by: HCK on November 10, 2011, 11:00:03 pm 20 Years Ago, The MacBook Air’s Battery Would Have Only Lasted 2.5 Seconds
Over at the Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal puts the enormous gains in the electric efficiency of computation (or how much power a computer draws) in perspective using the example of Apple’s new MacBook Air. Imagine you’ve got a shiny computer that is identical to a Macbook Air, except that it has the energy efficiency of a [...] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cultofmac/bFow/~3/RjDlgjGpFAw/story01.htm |