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To: Road Walker who wrote (6568)	3/26/2009 1:35:38 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

And sometimes more. Have an example? Anyway google 'battery breakthrough' and see what you find. The improvements mentioned at different sites that show up in that search are often in the range of 50% more to 10 times as much energy density. One talks about charging 100 times faster. 10 times more density or 100 times faster charging would be huge, but would still be A LOT smaller than PC improvement has been. And its not like those improvements are at all certain, they are just possible. Of course "large improvement" is more of the real issue than "as big of improvement as PC's", but my point was not that large improvements are impossible, or even extraordinarily unlikely, merely that the argument that PCs improved so much, so we should expect vast improvements from other things is really weak, pretty much useless. The ratio of things that have not improved as much or more in terms of price/performance as PCs and PC components, would probably be millions of times larger than the list of things that have improved that much or more. Its like arguing that because the best athlete in the world can do something, that some randomly selected individual should be able to do the same thing.