[Discuss] My God! It's Full of Batteries!

[mark at buttery.org (Shirley Márquez Dúlcey)]

On 3/16/2012 3:08 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 03/16/2012 02:56 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
>> Richard Pieri wrote:
>>> iFixit got their hands on one of the first The New iPads...
>>> ...has 42.5 Watt-hours of battery packs inside delivering
>>> the same 9-10 hours run time.
>>> iPad 2 has 25 Watt-hours of battery packs inside the case and is rated
>>> at 9-10 hours run time.
>> I noticed that last week when I Googled to look up the resolution of the
>> iPad 3 and ASUS Transformer Prime and came across a comparison article
>> showing the iPad 3 as 40-something Watt-hours, and the ASUS as
>> 20-something Watt-hours. I thought it might be a typo.
>>
>> What are they doing with all that extra juice?

Faster processor, Retina Display, LTE. What I wonder is how they 
squeezed in so much more battery without making the thing significantly 
heavier.