Welcome news! Battery life Improvements

This is something we’d like to see – batteries that actually last. Nothing more annoying than getting into your laptop only to discover that you made the grave mistake of using it for 2 hours yesterday AND NOT PLUGGING IT IN OVERNIGHT! OMG no! Even my iPhone has these issues. Since I don’t use it very often, it’s easy to forget sitting there on my desk – doing absolutely nothing. And a day later, I go to leave the house, and it’s completely dead.

AMD tackles thorny problem of laptop battery life – InfoWorld

http://news.google.com Fri, 20 Jun 2014 21:54:19 GMT

AMD tackles thorny problem of laptop battery lifeInfoWorldAdvanced Micro Devices is reworking its core PC chip design to be 25 times more energy-efficient over the next six years, possibly resulting in laptop battery life of up to 50 hours on idle ti …

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