{"id":4432,"date":"2009-03-14T05:49:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T09:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Why-Are-Notebook-Battery-Figures-So-Misleading"},"modified":"2009-03-14T05:49:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T09:49:18","slug":"why-are-notebook-battery-figures-so-misleading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=4432","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Notebook Battery Figures So Misleading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, here&#8217;s a thought. You know how vehicles sold in America have a &#8220;city&#8221; and &#8220;highway&#8221; MPG rating? And you know how cellphone companies rate their devices with a &#8220;standby time&#8221; and &#8220;talk time?&#8221; Why don&#8217;t notebook makers follow suit? That terrific talking point is coming at you courtesy of AMD&#8217;s senior vice president and chief marketing officer Nigel Dessau, who just recently wrote up a blog post on the subject.Today, users are given one single notebook battery life figure, and every single one of us consumers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, here&#8217;s a thought. You know how vehicles sold in America have a &#8220;city&#8221; and &#8220;highway&#8221; MPG rating? And you know how cellphone companies rate their devices with a &#8220;standby time&#8221; and &#8220;talk time?&#8221; Why don&#8217;t notebook makers follow suit? That terrific talking point is coming at you courtesy of AMD&#8217;s senior vice president and chief marketing officer Nigel Dessau, who just recently wrote up a blog post on the subject.Today, users are given one single notebook battery life figure, and every single one of us consumers <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=4432\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}