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Report proper battery life estimates on laptops
Authored by: MattHaffner on Apr 02, '03 12:07:38PM

Well, from my experience last night, after surfing around for a few hours doing low CPU & disk tasks and then installing the QT 6.1.1 update with <15 minutes reported left, I'm pretty confident that the estimate updated in real time. The 'minutes' clicked down much faster than real time.

Anecdotally, I could swear that I've seen the estimate start very low and then ramp up and add an hour after a minute or two of doing nothing.

I really can't imagine that this is based on a single snapshot when you bring it out of sleep. It does need a baseline to give you any estimate at all though, so that's why the 'Calculating...' appears--it has no history to draw from yet.



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