Disappointments
Wednesday, June 9th, 2004 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamaranthWent to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, but twenty minutes before the end they broke the cinema. Now have to find another film-viewing slot: have they no idea how difficult this is?!
Would've headed straight to bed but I had to switch on the computer.
Why? To charge my Palm Tungsten T3.
(The T3, as regular viewers will recall, was a gift from the insurers after my last-but-one Visor was nicked. I bought a second-hand Visor on eBay shortly after the Incident, and have been using that ever since: previous attempts to switch to the T3 have been hampered by (a) a keyboard that said it'd work with the T3, but didn't; (b) inertia)
I got the T3 working last night. When I left for work this morning it was fully charged.
One day's moderate use (mainly reading e-books, checking diary / to-do, etc) -- with the contrast set low to conserve battery life -- and, after way-too-frequent 'battery low' messages (every five minutes, in batches of three, once the battery got down to 30%) it's out of power.
The first person who creates a PDA-charger driven by annoyance will do well here.
A quick Google indicates that I can expect as little as 3 hours' use per battery charge, depending on what I'm doing. However, comparison of battery life with -- for example -- 'journey to Plymouth' (~5.5 hours) or 'a sunny day writing in the park' (~6 hours) or 'reading Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World whilst afloat' (~10 hours) shows that this is Not Good. Especially as I don't especially want the features -- colour display, quick-quick processor -- that take up so much juice. (If only a monochrome option was available!)
I can buy (and indeed have ordered) an ugly external battery pack on a string. This isn't really the point, though, is it?
Was going to ask for help in setting up Bluetooth stuff, but I think I'd better stick to internet cafes when I'm away from home. Or pen and paper. Or telepathy.
Dear darling (monochrome, AAA-powered, 8MB) Visor, you are probably coming back. All is forgiven. Although you are not nearly as good at storing multiple Stephenson e-books.
Edit: Gosh, it jumped back up to 82% suspiciously quickly ...
Would've headed straight to bed but I had to switch on the computer.
Why? To charge my Palm Tungsten T3.
(The T3, as regular viewers will recall, was a gift from the insurers after my last-but-one Visor was nicked. I bought a second-hand Visor on eBay shortly after the Incident, and have been using that ever since: previous attempts to switch to the T3 have been hampered by (a) a keyboard that said it'd work with the T3, but didn't; (b) inertia)
I got the T3 working last night. When I left for work this morning it was fully charged.
One day's moderate use (mainly reading e-books, checking diary / to-do, etc) -- with the contrast set low to conserve battery life -- and, after way-too-frequent 'battery low' messages (every five minutes, in batches of three, once the battery got down to 30%) it's out of power.
The first person who creates a PDA-charger driven by annoyance will do well here.
A quick Google indicates that I can expect as little as 3 hours' use per battery charge, depending on what I'm doing. However, comparison of battery life with -- for example -- 'journey to Plymouth' (~5.5 hours) or 'a sunny day writing in the park' (~6 hours) or 'reading Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World whilst afloat' (~10 hours) shows that this is Not Good. Especially as I don't especially want the features -- colour display, quick-quick processor -- that take up so much juice. (If only a monochrome option was available!)
I can buy (and indeed have ordered) an ugly external battery pack on a string. This isn't really the point, though, is it?
Was going to ask for help in setting up Bluetooth stuff, but I think I'd better stick to internet cafes when I'm away from home. Or pen and paper. Or telepathy.
Dear darling (monochrome, AAA-powered, 8MB) Visor, you are probably coming back. All is forgiven. Although you are not nearly as good at storing multiple Stephenson e-books.
Edit: Gosh, it jumped back up to 82% suspiciously quickly ...
