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At 12:34 PM 10/3/96 +0200, Arto.Kiiskinen@fike.nce.nokia.com wrote: >What do you think about the new smart battery technology proposed by Intel and >Duracell? > I've seen various items about battery management chips over the years... I probably missed that particular article you saw. > The end user would not want to know that my battery has >45,3 minutes time left. Rather, the user would like the money spent in the >intelligent charger and battery to be used to make the battery larger, >that is capacity-wise. You might not be interested in whether you have 45.3 vs 45.5 minutes, but it would sure be handy to know 2 minutes vs 2 seconds. Would you be more interested in having the chip if it meant you could go through more charge cycles before replacement? >Especially as it seems likely that Li-Ion battery chemistry is going to improve >greatly in the next few years. But am I wrong?? If charge management is done with an on-battery chip, then it is more likely that you can use new types of batteries that didn't exist when your computer was made. -Don Perley perley@cadence.com