Comments on: Island of light https://tariquesani.net/blog/2005/03/01/island-of-light/ Pediatrician and a Forensic Expert. A passionate PHP geek. Currently CTO, SANIsoft. Also a photographer, bird watcher, nature lover and a FOSS enthusiast. Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:33:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 By: achitnis https://tariquesani.net/blog/2005/03/01/island-of-light/#comment-1913 Wed, 02 Mar 2005 03:28:47 +0000 https://tarique.sanisoft.com/lj/?p=492#comment-1913 Vaibhav is right, you know. Laptops are dirt cheap now, and so is bandwidth. Maintaining a fully-powered office with a huge UPSs seems contra-indicative when a 50K laptop and a cheap phone let you work from anywhere. And especially the lind of work you do, which doesnt really need serious horsepower in the machine.

Once upon a time, desktops were standard, laptops only for speciality work/people. These days, I would say that unless you can justify the desktop, a laptop makes more sense.

The fact that modern laptops let you work an entire day on battery alone justifies it. The fact that you can charge one set of batteries elsewhere (where/when there *is* power) while using another set in your laptop makes even more sense.

Consider it. IAC you have been playing with the idea of a laptop for years – the current power situation may be just the final justification you need.

]]> By: tariquesani https://tariquesani.net/blog/2005/03/01/island-of-light/#comment-1912 Wed, 02 Mar 2005 01:39:47 +0000 https://tarique.sanisoft.com/lj/?p=492#comment-1912 The UPS takes 12 hours to fully charge after being completely drained – plus we do not have any laptops 😛

]]> By: vaibhav https://tariquesani.net/blog/2005/03/01/island-of-light/#comment-1905 Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:17:30 +0000 https://tarique.sanisoft.com/lj/?p=492#comment-1905 Yeah, so on normal days, laptop batteries and the UPS would take about 3 hrs to charge. When you dont have power, use up the UPS power (~1-2 hrs I suppose) then the main as well as the spare battery (~8-10 hrs). 9 + 2 = 11 hrs. Thats the worse you have seen right?

]]> By: tariquesani https://tariquesani.net/blog/2005/03/01/island-of-light/#comment-1904 Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:08:29 +0000 https://tarique.sanisoft.com/lj/?p=492#comment-1904 Batteries require electricity to charge them….

]]> By: vaibhav https://tariquesani.net/blog/2005/03/01/island-of-light/#comment-1903 Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:47:10 +0000 https://tarique.sanisoft.com/lj/?p=492#comment-1903 Depending on how much money you are burning, you might want to evaluate if getting laptops with multiple batteries (rotated/charged) + your usual UPS would be more cost effective. Also, you could carry them around and probably sit in a cafe + a reliance mobile to be online if you ever get that desperate.

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