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November 8, 2006
The Upside of Moore's Law Breaking
While many people are bemoaning the breakage of Moore's Law -- CPUs are no longer doubling performance every eighteen months -- there is an upside. Improvements in batter technology -- energy density in lithium ion has increased by 20-30% since 2004 -- are finally going straight to battery life, rather than being soaked up by power-hungry higher-clockcycle CPUs. The upshot: A typical laptop battery can now provide 4-5 hours of life, up from 3 hours in 2004.
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Maybe software bloat will start to slow down too? HA HA! Right.
That's excellent news about improvements in batter technology. I mean the state of pancakes has gone no where in the last 50 years. The Chinese are going to be light years ahead before we know it.