Alternative power/recharging source?

[Jordan Crouse]

On 22/02/08 17:12 -0800, david at lang.hm wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> 
> > david at lang.hm wrote:
> >
> >>> Again whats your source for this info? Because its news to me.
> >> 
> >> http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml
> >> LCD power consumption: 0.1 Watt with backlight off; 0.2-1.0 Watt with 
> >> backlight on;
> >>
> >> David Lang
> >>
> >
> > You are misinterpreting that. That is the display _only_.  Not the system 
> > power.
> >
> >> in full e-book mode the display unit is the only thing getting power (radio 
> >> off, cpu fully suspended)
> >
> > And the EC, the memory, various pull up/down resistors, and few other suspend 
> > voltage regulators.  All these add up to a non-trivial amount.
> 
> you are not nessasarily going to be powering the system memory

Its very difficult to suspend to RAM when the RAM isn't there.  We've
tried.

Jordan