sexta-feira, 29 de fevereiro de 2008

Fw: Blu-ray In Laptops Could Be Hard On Batteries

URL:
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/243351200/article.pl
damienhunter notes a Wired story on the power-hungry ways of the first
generation of Blu-ray players coming soon to a laptop near you. "With
the Sony-backed HD format emerging victorious from a two-year showdown
with Toshiba's HD DVD, many laptop manufacturers are now scrambling to
add Blu-ray drives in their desktop and notebook lineups. Next month,
Dell will even introduce a sub-$1,000 Blu-ray notebook... But the
promise of viewing an increasing variety of HD movies on your laptop
may be overshadowed by ongoing concerns over the technology's vampiric
effect on battery life. Indeed, if the first generation of Blu-ray
equipped laptops are any indication, you might not get more than
halfway through that movie before running out of juice completely,
analysts say."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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