IDF 2011: Intel Promises Ultrabooks with 10 Days of Connected Standby by 2013 Discussion

[J.R. Nelson]

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco today, Intel shared a few tidbits with the audience, including details of its push into the Ultrabook segment blazed by the MacBook Air. Among the most exciting goals was a planned 10-day connected standby time for the platform by 2013.

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[invisible]

Intel makes a lot of promises. Anyone remember this quote? (from DailyTech)

"Intel is investing heavily (think gazillions of dollars and bazillions of engineering man hours) in resources to create an Intel host controllers spec in order to speed time to market of the USB 3.0 technology." -- Intel blogger Nick Knupffer

That was what, 2 years ago?

[Charles P. Jefferies]

Nice writeup, J.R.

Battery life is the next frontier for notebooks. Two solutions: invent a newer/better battery technology or reduce power consumption. Notebooks graduated from Nickel Metal Hydrate batteries to Lithium Ion/Polymer over a decade ago. Time for a new technology. Right now the solution is "let's add more batteries" or "let's make a bigger battery".

That said I will believe the 20x platform power decrease when I see it. Under what circumstances? Will the average user see that, or is that only when the laptop is idling with the screen turned off?

[Phinagle]

Wonderful...so the next time I wake up from one of my week long narcoleptic comas that notebook I didn't get a chance to plug in will still have a charge.


Improving battery life for the purpose of extending the length of time a user can go without plugging into an outlet hits a practical usefulness cap after about a day or two. Rather than a battery life that lets users be lazy for 10 days, the real value of improving power consumption, and battery tech, should be to give users the "all-day" computing they can legitimately justify out of a smaller, and lighter battery.

I'd take a battery that reduces it's weight by half and only lasts a day over a battery that stays the same weight and lasts ten days.

[J.R. Nelson]

For what it's worth the connected standby time is actually a pretty cool feature - you can leave your computer asleep overnight, but it maintains a minimum level of connection sufficient to download your emails, tweets, etc.

[cy007]

As per Intel tradition, they managed to make their next-gen platform obsolete before its even released.

[Mr_Mysterious]

As long as these things are still able to play 1080p streaming video without stuttering at a good price point, I'll be fine

Mr. Mysterious