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20 March 2003

Alcohol-powered laptops sound great. Is it just me, or would anyone else be tempted to … never mind. I’ll get my coat.

Seriously, I could use something like this. The battery in my Sony VAIO lasts long enough to get to the Windows login prompt … and then dies. In fact the battery is the only thing I have to complain about with the VAIO, but it really stinks that after only a couple of years it has been reduce to near useless.

How long does your battery last?

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § Jim: You get to the login screen? Wow! My HP only gets about 5 seconds past the BIOS. Oh well, I guess I can live tied to a cord.

    Jim
  2. § Nathan Pitman: My HP lappy is still doing ok, but then it’s only just over a year old. It’ll do about 2 - 2.5 hours depending on how many apps I have open, screen brightness etc...
  3. § Drew: We have a Dell Latitude at work that it quite old (PII 400) and lasts for about 30 minutes.

    The most annoying thing about my VAIO is that although I have a wireless LAN at home I’m still tied to needing to plug the thing in to the wall.

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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