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Centrino ThinkPad "changes hack's life" - creepy comment

It seems that one mobile hack has fallen for the Centrino story: "That's the breakthrough. For me, it's the Holy Grail. IBM's marketing figures claim 11 to 13 hours battery life, which is piffle. But who cares if you can really get eight hours or more of solid work out of a portable PC?"

Who is this creep? He's playing with an IBM X31 portable PC. And eight hours, he says: "That's a day's work. That's a transatlantic flight with urgent deadlines. All without having to find a power outlet. Okay, the battery is a lump, but the whole package is still a comfortable weight in your backpack or briefcase."

He concludes: "I've never, ever, written a PC review before that ended: 'They're going to have to fight to get this machine back,' and I'm not going to do it now. But this is the first notebook I've handed back with a genuine regret that my current one isn't due to be replaced for another year."

You can see the rest of this man's vapourings on PC Mag online UK ...