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    Possible Way To Extend Battery Life?

    It can be. My Dell laptop dropped from almost 8 hours to under 2 in about a year. I believe the culprit is leaving it plugged in, especially when using it. From what I've read it sounds like those last few percent worth of charge dramatically accelerate the degredation. Combined with the...
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    Possible Way To Extend Battery Life?

    Well, personally unplugging it probably wouldn't work - I plan to normally recharge it overnight along with my cell phone and brain, and a 2am wake-up-and-unplug-me alarm is not acceptable. Thanks for the data sheet though - I'll have to dig through that sometime when my inner engineer wants to...
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    Possible Way To Extend Battery Life?

    So I imagine everyone here has suffered from "battery fade" on some piece of tech - you know, the way your laptop battery capacity is cut half every 6-12 months. This is a relatively well understood phenomena, at least for lithium ion batteries, and is accelerated by heat and extremes of charge...
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    Great Pandora Accessories

    And let's not forget mini-projectors! smaller than the Pandora and gives you big screen gaming in any darkened room! http://www.3m.com/mpro/demo.html Looks like you can actually buy them now, only $350. The Pandora 3 totally needs to incorporate a 1080P version, which will no doubt be available...
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    Fat File System Licensing?

    Licensing FAT Long file name IS NOT A LEGAL OPTION Okay, in all the discussion I didn't notice anyone bring up the reason that TomTom agreed to eventual removal of FAT-Long File Name support rather than licensing it as part of the settlement deal along with the mapping patents - namely...
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    Sales Can it be delivered to a U.S. Post Office box?

    Just thought I should check since I know even a lot of domestic shipping companies can't/won't deliver to P.O. boxes, I'd hate to have my Pandora delayed to sort out the shipping later. If it's not possible then I need to change my shipping address, but I really hope it is - I'd much rather my...
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    Keyboard Poll, Finally!

    Okay, I admit I haven't read every post in every keyboard thread, so maybe somebody has already mentioned this, but it struck me all of a sudden: Why isn't the Shift key on a shoulder button? The whole point of having a keyboard is so that we can type, right? And the most common usage will...
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    Adjustable Lcd Refresh Rate?

    Okay, so it sounds like the LCD and driving circuitry can theoretically be clocked to whatever you want, between the minimum and maximum frequencies determined by the hardware capabilities (leakage, response times, etc.) And I would assume the frequency options have a certain granularity due to...
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    Adjustable Lcd Refresh Rate?

    Hi all, I was wondering what exactly the refresh rate on the LCD will be, and whether it will be possible for a program to adjust it. A forum search turned up a couple posts suggesting it might be, but nothing definite. I'm playing with the idea of making a speed-reading program - one of...
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