Energy
While being cautious to avoid descending into a physics discussion like last time, booting my work computer on battery this morning consumed 12% of my available charge, leaving 1:03 as the estimated time before battery exhaustion.
And don’t think for a moment that low time was due to the hectic booting process: I just checked my e-mail and wrote this blog and I’m down to 81% (0:59) now, just a few minutes later.
Windows 2000 is a horrible battery manager, but using crappy refurbished laptops with aging batteries (billed to the department at the new computer rate) might be the bigger problem.
I think my department has seen three laptop hard drive failures in the last year. I wonder why…
Proofreading has me down to 78%…