Author: Mark Young
Date: 10:23:37 03/15/05
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On March 15, 2005 at 03:12:46, Sirotovich wrote: >Dear Chess Friends ! > >I am thinking to buy a Pocket PC or a Plam. But I heard a lot of sad stories >about very bad performance of the batteries. Probably a lot of visitors here >have Pocket PCs and Palms of different brands. If you play Pocket Fritz, Genius, >Tiger, Hiarcs or any other chess program; or you just work with a chess >database, how long can your Pocket PC be alive before the battery becomes flat ? >I week ago I sent a question to ChessBase about their Pocket Fritz. I wanted to >know, if it is compatible with Smart Phones. They were not sure. > >And another routine question, please – Pocket PC or Palm, which one is better >for chess ? > >I would appreciate your answer. > >Best regards > >Anatoli I did a battery test on my Axim X5 with a 3400 Mah battery. I tested using Chessgenius with the program running 100% of the time. The Screen was left on and CPU was running at 400 Mhz. My Dell lasted 18 Hours and 10 Min before the power bar droped to 0%. My Dell was still working but shut down had not happend as of yet. At 12 hours run time Power level showed 54%. At 18 hours 10 mins Power level showed 0%.
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