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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (10077)	4/4/2000 12:49:00 AM
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more due diligence There is a reference to the microdrive on the home page that indicates some devices will not run on battery power with the microdrive in place. The microdrive is a power hog. This is the coup de grƒce for IBM. You just can't have a power hungry component like microdrive in portable electronics. Here is some bench testing I posted last Fall that shows the microdrive decreases battery life on the Cassiopeia E-100 from 2hrs 33min to just 1hr 20min when repetitively playing multimedia files (equivalent to continuously playing .mpeg files with audio)... http://www.to-tech.com/windowsce/misc/ibm-md-340.htm* Ausdauer

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