Availability of XO-1.5 ATest-2 machines

[Tiago Marques]

Hi Chris,

Nobody in the hardware industry publishes numbers doing the kinds of
active power management techniques you use like suspend and keep the
image in DCON - aside from maybe ebook readers. OLPC is up against
crap stuff like the Classmate which don't have anything like that but
can have a similar usage to common laptops. To avoid further scrutiny
from the media (like:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13512_3-9766574-23.html ), it would probably
be better to forget the whole suspend techniques all at once.
Maybe it would be better to measure and quote a regular usage time,
which would be +- 3 hours on an XO-1 and 8 hours on ebook mode?


Best regards,

Tiago Marques


On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Chris Ball<cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi Carlos,
>
>   > A good test would be just to use the units in ebook reader mode
>   > and try testing how long the batteries would last reading PDFs.
>   >
>   > No need for suspend/resume testing in this case.
>
> I still disagree, because ebook reading is the mode in which we use
> suspend the most!  We suspend whenever the viewer is not actively
> rendering something new.
>
> I agree that we should publish representative data as soon as we can,
> but if suspend/resume isn't included, the data aren't representative.
>
> - Chris.
> --
> Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
>