Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> writes:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Don't forget the tablet will need a new liion battery every three years
Is that true?
My anecdotal evidence with Eee netbooks supports it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_ion doesn't say exactly, but the breakout bar at the top says "400-1200 cycles". BOTE for 1 full discharge per day turns that into one to three-and-a-bit years. Contrariwise, if you had a more moderate use case -- say, using a 12h battery for four hours, once a week, in an continuously air-conditioned environment, you would expect it to last a lot longer... BOTE says more like 16 to 48 years. (By then probably something else, like the bakelite-style cracking of the housing, would destroy it. Or it'd be useless for the same reason as your BNC network card is.)