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April 12, 2005

Firing up your laptop

Due to those overly timid airlines not being terribly keen on their aircraft flying around with a lot of methanol on board, you still have to plug your laptop into an AC plug to recharge its batteries, and you're not getting eight hours use out of each charge.

IBM and Sanyo plan to change all that by 2007, with their work on a methanol fuel cell-lithium ion hybrid system for ThinkPads, which will provide the benefits above.

We're sure it's going to be perfectly safe, however, when 2007 comes around, and the airlines do change their rules, we think we'll be doing a lot more travelling by rail. Or road. Possibly by bicycle. We see a good deal of potential, by the way, for a pedal-powered laptop.

By the way, if you want to wring some more life out of your Power Book, here's some hints.

Posted by cw at April 12, 2005 09:34 AM