>>>>That's at least 4 hours of true battery live unlike others that advertise more while the unit sits there doing little. The two guys who have the prototypes claim 5+ depending on what they're doing with it. From what I understand, the iPad has higher life because it isn't doing as much (i.e., multitasking). I expect to see that 10hours drop when Apple adds multitasking.
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>>>Comparison against netbooks with nearly the same HW basis worries me: either the touchscreen sucks up energy or the OS / Exo front is rather hungry [and yes, it is prototype stage...] Atom netbooks with 10' get 8-10H, some 11' HDMI sporting nVidia plus HDMI 6-9H [possibly WiFi disabled, but not sure]. Another plus for LAN sockets...
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>>>regards
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>>>thomas
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>>Battery life numbers are rather iffy but ExoPC says minimum 4 hours. It all depends on what you're doing to drain the battery. We'll have to see if the final production units are any better.
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>will it require a separate laptop stand with a fan to prevent toasted skin? (Watched quite a few stories on that from laptops recently)

There is a "docking station" that is going to be available for it, but, it isn't to provide cooling for the device. To me, it looks like it's main purpose is to simply keep the unit upright for viewing. As for it running so hot that it toasts bare skin I don't know. I've never seen any of the forum discussions talking about heat and none of the prototype reviewers mention it. The only place where it was discussed was in the comments sections of another author's review of the ExoPC. The person making the comment just assumed from the hardware that it was going to run hot. His claim was refuted by a tester of the device who said it was not a problem and that the only time it got "hot" was when it was charging and that was to be expected. We'll find out soon.