Why can’t they make a tablet to last 16 hrs of battery power before recharging? Is it even possible? We’re living in 2019 now. The technology should be there. It would be great innovation.

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Why can't they make a tablet to last 16 hrs of battery power before recharging? Is it even possible? We're living in 2019 now. The
technology should be there. It would be great innovation.

I don't know what you are talking about. The last 3 tablets (about 7" tablets) have all had battery lifes > 16 hours.

I plug it in when I go to sleep, unplug it when I get up and use it all day (say 6am-10pm). At 10pm, when I plug it back in, the battery is still at about 40%.


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I don't know what you are talking about. The last 3 tablets (about 7" tablets) have all had battery lifes > 16 hours.

I plug it in when I go to sleep, unplug it when I get up and use it all day (say 6am-10pm). At 10pm, when I plug it back in, the battery is still at about 40%.

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Well my IPad 9.7” is only 10 HRS MAX and the Microsoft Surface Pro is also the same.

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Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to All on Sat Oct 05 2019 02:49 pm

Why can't they make a tablet to last 16 hrs of battery power before recharging? Is it even possible? We're living in 2019 now. The technology should be there. It would be great innovation.

I think we just have to be patient. And why stop at 16? Why not 24, 30, or 100 hours?

Nightfox

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Dr. What on Sat Oct 05 2019 04:35 pm

Well my IPad 9.7" is only 10 HRS MAX and the Microsoft Surface Pro is also the same.

The Microsoft Surface Pro is basically a full Intel x86 64-bit PC. Naturally it's going to drain the battery faster than a typical ARM-based tablet with an OS optimized for mobile use.

Nightfox

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Dr. What on Sat Oct 05 2019 04:35 pm

Well my IPad 9.7" is only 10 HRS MAX and the Microsoft Surface Pro is also the same.

It probably depends on which tablet is being used and what you are doing on said tablet. I would assume different tablets have different size batteries. I have an iPad at work and it only lasts about 8 hours before it dies, if I don't plug it in. But I'm using it constantly and it's sending/receiving 4G data every 15 seconds.

Perhaps you could buy a bigger battery if you want it to last 16 hours. People want small sleek tablets, phones, etc. The battery is already the biggest and heaviest component as it is. I don't want to lug around a heavy phone or a tablet that weighs as much as a laptop. It's easier to carry a charging cable and charge it as needed.

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The Millionaire wrote to All <=-

Why can't they make a tablet to last 16 hrs of battery power before recharging? Is it even possible? We're living in 2019 now. The
technology should be there. It would be great innovation.

They could. It would weigh 6 pounds and no one would buy it.


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They could. It would weigh 6 pounds and no one would buy it.

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Oh that’s why. Well I would and I’d use it in my room more then.

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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Dr. What on Sat Oct 05 2019 04:35 pm

The Microsoft Surface Pro is basically a full Intel x86 64-bit PC. Naturally it's going to drain the battery faster than a typical ARM-based tablet with an OS optimized for mobile use.

Nightfox

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Well that idea just went down the drain then. No BBS I guess. *sighs* :-(

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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Sun Oct 06 2019 02:24 pm

The Microsoft Surface Pro is basically a full Intel x86 64-bit PC.
Naturally it's going to drain the battery faster than a typical
ARM-based tablet with an OS optimized for mobile use.

Well that idea just went down the drain then. No BBS I guess. *sighs* :-(

You could always leave the power cord plugged in.. For a BBS, you're going to want the machine on and available all the time anyway.

Nightfox

On 10-06-19 14:24, The Millionaire wrote to Nightfox <=-

Well that idea just went down the drain then. No BBS I guess. *sighs*

You'd just have to run it off the mains. BBSs aren't intended to be mobile.


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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Sun Oct 06 2019 02:24 pm

You could always leave the power cord plugged in.. For a BBS, you're going to want the machine on and available all the time anyway.

Nightfox

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Yeah I could do that. But I would ruin the battery though.

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You'd just have to run it off the mains. BBSs aren't intended to be mobile.

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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Sun Oct 06 2019 07:35 pm

You could always leave the power cord plugged in.. For a BBS, you're
going to want the machine on and available all the time anyway.

Yeah I could do that. But I would ruin the battery though.

A tablet might not be the best type of computer to run a BBS on..

Nightfox

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Vk3jed on Sun Oct 06 2019 07:37 pm

You'd just have to run it off the mains. BBSs aren't intended to be
mobile.

I thought I'd be the first mobile bbs ever.

Do you expect to be moving your BBS machine around a lot?

Nightfox

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: Nightfox to The Millionaire on Sun Oct 06 2019 09:43 pm

Yeah I could do that. But I would ruin the battery though.

A tablet might not be the best type of computer to run a BBS on..

i'm not so sure tablets are even in style anymore. we are on our phones and tablets are just another device that does the same thing. it's a bit bigger, yes....
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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Sun Oct 06 2019 07:35 pm

You could always leave the power cord plugged in.. For a BBS, you're
going to want the machine on and available all the time anyway.

Yeah I could do that. But I would ruin the battery though.

Why not just buy a cheap thinclient PC from Ebay like I did?
my BBS runs on a HP 5741e 4GB ram and I threw in a old laptop 500GB hard drive I had laying around, I bought a monitor mount from ebay for $5 and it runs on the back of my monitor out of site.
PC cost me $13 so Im in less than $20
and the thinclient is fanless so makes no noise.

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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Sun Oct 06 2019 07:35 pm

Why not just buy a cheap thinclient PC from Ebay like I did?
my BBS runs on a HP 5741e 4GB ram and I threw in a old laptop 500GB hard drive I had laying around, I bought a monitor mount from ebay for $5 and it runs on the back of my monitor out of site.
PC cost me $13 so Im in less than $20
and the thinclient is fanless so makes no noise.

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I have disabilities and the tablet is my only way out to using a computer these days for me.

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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: Nightfox to The Millionaire on Sun Oct 06 2019 09:43 pm

i'm not so sure tablets are even in style anymore. we are on our phones and tablets are just another device that does the same thing. it's a bit bigger, yes....
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Microsoft just came out with the MSP7 so they’re still out there.

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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Vk3jed on Sun Oct 06 2019 07:37 pm

Do you expect to be moving your BBS machine around a lot?

Nightfox

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Sometimes. Why you ask that?

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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Sun Oct 06 2019 07:35 pm

A tablet might not be the best type of computer to run a BBS on..

Nightfox

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Why is that? It has Windows on it.

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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Mon Oct 07 2019 04:33 am

Do you expect to be moving your BBS machine around a lot?

Sometimes. Why you ask that?

You mentioned possibly being the first mobile BBS ever. It sounded like that's what you were going for, though typically most sysops don't have a need to move their BBS machine around a lot. I've never had a need to move my BBS machine around very often anyway..

Nightfox

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Mon Oct 07 2019 04:34 am

A tablet might not be the best type of computer to run a BBS on..

Why is that? It has Windows on it.

Because of what you said, having to leave it plugged into wall power all the time could damage the battery..

Nightfox

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: MRO to Nightfox on Mon Oct 07 2019 12:57 am

i'm not so sure tablets are even in style anymore. we are on our phones and tablets are just another device that does the same thing. it's a bit bigger, yes....

I know some people who use tablets.. Yes, tablets do a lot of the same things as phones. Some people just like a bigger screen.

Nightfox

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Mon Oct 07 2019 04:34 am

Because of what you said, having to leave it plugged into wall power all the time could damage the battery..

Nightfox

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Because at times, I would like to be mobile. Other times not.

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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Mon Oct 07 2019 02:51 pm

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Mon Oct 07 2019 04:34 am

Because of what you said, having to leave it plugged into wall power all the time could damage the battery..

Because at times, I would like to be mobile. Other times not.

A BBS is a server. If the BBS/server is really expected to attract and retain users, then it'll need to be reliably connected to the Internet (e.g. no WiFi) and have long up-times. A tablet does not make a good server for several reasons. Haven't we already had this discussion?

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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Mon Oct 07 2019 02:51 pm

Because at times, I would like to be mobile. Other times not.

If you mean just mobile around your house, that would probably be fine. But if you're running a BBS on a tablet that you take without you outside the house and various places, it may be hard for people to connect to the BBS because its public IP address would be changing a lot when you're carrying it with you to various places.

I think it's best to have a BBS on a PC that you can leave at home running all the time, and you could use the tablet to remote desktop into your BBS machine and interact with it that way. If you don't want to have a PC at home running all the time, you could look into having your BBS be hosted in the cloud (and I'm pretty sure you could still remote desktop into it to work on it). Marisag here on Dove-Net does some remote BBS hosting, from what I've seen.

Nightfox

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Mon Oct 07 2019 02:51 pm

If you mean just mobile around your house, that would probably be fine. But if you're running a BBS on a tablet that you take without you outside the house and various places, it may be hard for people to connect to the BBS because its public IP address would be changing a lot when you're carrying it with you to various places.

I think it's best to have a BBS on a PC that you can leave at home running all the time, and you could use the tablet to remote desktop into your BBS machine and interact with it that way. If you don't want to have a PC at home running all the time, you could look into having your BBS be hosted in the cloud (and I'm pretty sure you could still remote desktop into it to work on it). Marisag here on Dove-Net does some remote BBS hosting, from what I've seen.

Nightfox

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BBS in the cloud? How is that possible?

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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Mon Oct 07 2019 16:50:10

BBS in the cloud? How is that possible?

By running it on a remote server. The remote server might be part of (some person's definition of) "the cloud". You don't have to run a BBS out of your home, although many/most people do.

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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: Nightfox to The Millionaire on Mon Oct 07 2019 10:06 am

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Mon Oct 07 2019 04:33 am

Do you expect to be moving your BBS machine around a lot?

Sometimes. Why you ask that?

You mentioned possibly being the first mobile BBS ever. It sounded like tha what you were going for, though typically most sysops don't have a need to m their BBS machine around a lot. I've never had a need to move my BBS machin

he wont ever be the first mobile bbs ever. mr proper ran his bbs on his
phone until my super bbs botnet took him down!
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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: Nightfox to The Millionaire on Mon Oct 07 2019 10:06 am

he wont ever be the first mobile bbs ever. mr proper ran his bbs on his phone until my super bbs botnet took him down!
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Then I’ll be the first mobile tablet BBS then.

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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Mon Oct 07 2019 04:50 pm

BBS in the cloud? How is that possible?

What do you mean? It would just be running on a server located somewhere else outside your home..

Nightfox

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: Nightfox to The Millionaire on Mon Oct 07 2019 10:06 am

he wont ever be the first mobile bbs ever. mr proper ran his bbs on his phone until my super bbs botnet took him down!
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You take a Sysop’s BBS down? *scared*

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The Millionaire wrote to Dr. What <=-

Well my IPad 9.7" is only 10 HRS MAX and the Microsoft Surface Pro is
also the same.

Well, that's why you don't get 16 hours of life. Apple and Microsoft have a history of trash products.

My deca-core (yes, that's 10 cores - 2 high power and 8 low power) Chuwi Hi9Pro running Android 8 easily gets 16 hours before it gets charged. It could probably run for 24 hours if I could stay awake 8)

Did I mention that it only costs $140?


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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to MRO on Tue Oct 08 2019 03:33 am

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: Nightfox to The Millionaire on Mon Oct 07 2019 10:06 am

he wont ever be the first mobile bbs ever. mr proper ran his bbs on his phone until my super bbs botnet took him down!
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You take a Sysop's BBS down? *scared*

no my super bbs botnet did.
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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to MRO on Tue Oct 08 2019 03:33 am

no my super bbs botnet did.
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On 10-06-19 19:37, The Millionaire wrote to Vk3jed <=-

@VIA: VERT

You'd just have to run it off the mains. BBSs aren't intended to be mobile.

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I thought I'd be the first mobile bbs ever.

I could always run one on my Android phone using Magic DOSBox, but didn't see the point. And I have a Linux netbook that is running Magicka BBS. :)


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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to MRO on Wed Oct 09 2019 05:27 am

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to MRO on Tue Oct 08 2019 03:33 am

no my super bbs botnet did.
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So what happened to Mr. Proper now? Is he gone for good?

He's got serious drug problems and the whole time he's ran synchronet he would pop in and pop out of activity. I'm not even sure if he's alive.

he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: MRO to The Millionaire on Thu Oct 10 2019 10:10 pm

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to MRO on Wed Oct 09 2019 05:27 am

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to MRO on Tue Oct 08 2019 03:33 am

no my super bbs botnet did.
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So what happened to Mr. Proper now? Is he gone for good?

He's got serious drug problems and the whole time he's ran synchronet he wou pop in and pop out of activity. I'm not even sure if he's alive.

i looked at one of his last posts and he was staying people were attacking him and pretending to be him and 'hacking' him and messing up things that only he had access to and that he configured.

he said i was doing name spoofing [of who] and other weird stuff. honestly i dont have time in my life to do this. another time he said i had a botnet and that's why i joke about it with another guy here.

he just was super paranoid and i think in the end he just didnt configure
his bbslink correctly.

now after reading my posts i see mr proper was on dialup at this time. i doubt he was being attacked by anybody, and i doubt that his systems were even up for any length of time except when he was specifically using them.

http://bbs.fireballex.com/?page=001-forum.ssjs&sub=dove-general&thread=4579

oh, i looked him up via his ham tag and he's still alive and posting on fb.
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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: MRO to The Millionaire on Thu Oct 10 2019 10:10 pm

So what happened to Mr. Proper now? Is he gone for good?

He's got serious drug problems and the whole time he's ran synchronet he would pop in and pop out of activity. I'm not even sure if he's alive.

he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.
he has a generic name [tim smith] so it's hard to look him up.

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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: Nightfox to The Millionaire on Mon Oct 07 2019 10:06 am

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Mon Oct 07 2019 04:33 am

Do you expect to be moving your BBS machine around a lot?

Sometimes. Why you ask that?

You mentioned possibly being the first mobile BBS ever. It sounded like tha
anyway..

Nightfox

I remember a few bbs's in the 90's that ran on laptops and would post what phone # they would be at on other networked message forums. I don't recall the reason for why they were mobile. Maybe they were brought to/from work?

Maybe they were trying thwart phone tracing?

Dunno. I just remember a few. It seemed like a neat idea back then.


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Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: Zombie Mambo to Nightfox on Fri Oct 11 2019 03:48 pm

I remember a few bbs's in the 90's that ran on laptops and would post what phone # they would be at on other networked message forums. I don't recall the reason for why they were mobile. Maybe they were brought to/from work?

Maybe they were trying thwart phone tracing?

Dunno. I just remember a few. It seemed like a neat idea back then.

Maybe that would be useful if they were running a warez BBS or had some other reason they didn't want the phone to be traced. Otherwise, perhaps they just had a leftover laptop and decided to set up a BBS on it.

Nightfox

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: Nightfox to Zombie Mambo on Fri Oct 11 2019 04:16 pm

Re: Re: 16 HR BATS
By: Zombie Mambo to Nightfox on Fri Oct 11 2019 03:48 pm

I remember a few bbs's in the 90's that ran on laptops and would post w phone # they would be at on other networked message forums. I don't rec the reason for why they were mobile. Maybe they were brought to/from wo

Maybe they were trying thwart phone tracing?

Dunno. I just remember a few. It seemed like a neat idea back then.

Maybe that would be useful if they were running a warez BBS or had some othe

Nightfox

I get the impression a pirate warez site run in that manner would be the sort of site pedophiles and child pronographers would use to share pictures.

Regarding the thwarting of phone tracing, I had a friend in the late 1990's
who worked for a regional cell provider. One evening he received a call a channel on one of their switches "stuck open," or has been active for an abnormal amount of time. Back then, calls rarely lasted longer than a
certain time threshold, so a tech had to be called in to visit that tower station and determine the problem. He tapped in to listen to see if the
call wasn't a system glitch, and what he heard on the line was what sounded like arabic language. This got the government involved (didn't say which agency) however they traced the number to a cell phone in a motel room. There was a table in the room that consisted of several cell phones hard wired to power, and every two phones would be connected to work as a relay. Someone
in one part of the world would call in to one phone, then the other would be dialed into the desired destination, then the phones would be couple so that the destination would be untracable. The guys running the operation weren't that valuable as intelligence assets, either. They were hired through a
third party, and knew better to not ask ay questions or attempt to guess who was on the line.

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