Motion Battery Life

[DC]

I am considering purchasing a remanufactured (read used)
TabletPC from Gateway for the next three years of law
school. I thought I remembered reading that Motion had
one of the longer battery life statistics. Can anyone
weigh in and give me their impressions?

I decided against the newer Centrino because of costs and
the fact that I wouldn't need any additional features of a
newer platform to do simple case briefs, outlines, and
other document functions. I have a desktop for the power
computing and gaming.

Thanks!

DC

[terri]

Hi, DC.

Gateway uses some different internal hardware in some cases than Motion
does.

I've had a Motion M1200 for several months now and have been exceedingly
happy with the battery life of it. Whether or not the Gateway will achieve
the same, I'm not sure without comparing them side by side using the same
programs, etc.

Not everyone has had the battery life that I normally see, so you'll have to
take it on a case by case basis.

--
Terri Stratton
http://thetabletpc.net

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[Worapon Pitayaphongpat [MS]]

My Gateway/Motion M1300 (Centrino) last about 3 and half hour, sometimes 3
hours 45 minutes. I only use till it shutoff on my once, the rest I just
watch battery indicator and turn it off way before it needs too (never have
3+ hours meeting continue with out be back in my office for at least 30
minutes).

Battery life also change according many other things you use as well. Such
as what software, do you use a lot of handwriting recognition, etc; how much
RAM do you have (that is less access pagefile on hdd leave more power to
you); do you use wire/wireless LAN (if not use, just turn it off, you can
save more battery), PCMCIA (even leave it in with out using it, some will
still require battery and not all use the same voltage).

My 3.30 hours is with all LAN and PCMCIA in (smartcard reader) and 512MB RAM
on a slow hard drive with email, jotting note (no recognition, just
handwriting), checking network share or connect to database.

From reading many website, this 3.30 seem to be what most people got, only
some, I saw said they've got 4 hours out of it.

Kind Regards,
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//worapon pitayaphongpat
MUI/LIP CORE team
Microsoft Corporation
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