The New iPad Has a Really Massive Battery

[coreym72]

Includes the app iCampFire with self igniting shorts to light up your pad.

 

[waethorn]

I don't care about how long the battery lasts in a toy. What I want is a sub-$1000 tablet that I can use as a real computer....which is why I'm waiting for Windows 8. I want something with good graphics, which means AMD (you won't see Intel tablets with discrete graphics, whether they're SoC or not, and Intel graphics sucks), but am stuck in a purchase decision between them and potentially much lower cost ARM tablets. I'm weighing the downsides of using ARM (probably lower performance, no backwards compatibility, lower-end graphics options) and the cost vs. AMD. Of course, I can't make any final decisions until products are actually available on the market. And so I wait....

 

[Guest]

@freggo

i can see how an iPad maybe useful after a power outage, yes for god for that flash light app.........

 

[johnfrink]

Well, it must be smaller than the iPad itself. So you cannot say it is "Really Massive".

 

[eddieroolz]

So now we know where the extra weight comes from. Not bad to have the same battery as previous gen.

 

[belardo]

[citation][nom]v3rlon[/nom]The only reason I care about any of this is the question about charging time. ~ Nope, don't care.So, unless the charging time is changed, why is this news?[/citation]
Fast charging kills batteries. In case you haven't notice, iStuff don't have user-replaceable batteries.

 

[ali2551]

[citation][nom]freggo[/nom]Ahem, I am not an electrician, but 40Wh is 40Wh.If you drain it at 12V you get fewer Amps than draining it in the same time frame at 3.5V.Any electrical engineers here that can clarify this ?[/citation]
mAh is how they measure the capacity. While Wh is the amount of energy that a battery has, Which means that the amount of battery performance measured in Wh is dependent on the voltage whereas the mAh is not(in theory). Hope that helps.
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