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From: OP on 20 Mar 2010 18:22 For the iPad. WOW!!! Can it start a car?
From: Richard Maine on 20 Mar 2010 19:09 OP <Otto.Philips(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > For the iPad. > WOW!!! > Can it start a car? Is there supposed to be something horribly impressive about 25 watt hours? If so, you seem easily impressed. The MacBook pro has a 73 watt-hour battery. I'm aware the iPad is smaller. Presumably it is a decent battery for teh purpose, but I don't see the "WOW", complete with three exclamation points, which is presumably wowier than with just one. And, as an aside, you can have pretty much an arbitrarily high capacity in terms of watt hours and still not be able to start a car; that's not the relevant measure for the purpose. If you plug any old notebook power supply into a wall outlet, it will deliver essentially an infinite number of watt hours. Ok, eventually either the power supply will die or you will loose power in the wall socket, but close enough to infinite for current purposes. That doesn't mean it will start a car (ubless you use it to charge up something that can deliver a lot more instantaneous power). -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: OP on 20 Mar 2010 20:06 "Richard Maine" <nospam(a)see.signature> wrote in message news:1jfntrx.yi84b4gxrd2N%nospam(a)see.signature... > OP <Otto.Philips(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> For the iPad. >> WOW!!! >> Can it start a car? > > Is there supposed to be something horribly impressive about 25 watt > hours? If so, you seem easily impressed. Apple stated it - I was duly impressed. Then you explained the "real deal", which I thank you for. Now I am no longer impressed. >The MacBook pro has a 73 > watt-hour battery. I'm aware the iPad is smaller. Presumably it is a > decent battery for teh purpose, but I don't see the "WOW", complete with > three exclamation points, which is presumably wowier than with just one. > > And, as an aside, you can have pretty much an arbitrarily high capacity > in terms of watt hours and still not be able to start a car; that's not > the relevant measure for the purpose. I threw that in for laughs. The Apple hype makes "25 watts" sound so..........BIG! >If you plug any old notebook power > supply into a wall outlet, it will deliver essentially an infinite > number of watt hours. Ok, eventually either the power supply will die or > you will loose power in the wall socket, but close enough to infinite > for current purposes. That doesn't mean it will start a car (ubless you > use it to charge up something that can deliver a lot more instantaneous > power). Actually, I really wasn't "duly impressed". Rather "mildly amused".
From: nospam on 20 Mar 2010 20:23 In article <aqdpn.95667$K81.53524(a)newsfe18.iad>, OP <Otto.Philips(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > I threw that in for laughs. The Apple hype makes "25 watts" sound > so..........BIG! especially when you can't count that high. the battery specs are what they are. would you prefer that they lie and say it's less?
From: Jolly Roger on 20 Mar 2010 20:28
In article <1jfntrx.yi84b4gxrd2N%nospam(a)see.signature>, nospam(a)see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote: > Is there supposed to be something horribly impressive about 25 watt > hours? \|||/ (o o) ,~~~ooO~~(_)~~~~~~~~~, | Please | | don't feed the | | TROLL! | '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ooO~~~' |__|__| || || ooO Ooo By doing so, you only prolong their disruption. Instead, filter their posts so you don't have to see them anymore. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR |