http://www.tabletpccomparison.net/comparison-charts/battery-life-chart
According to this chart it seems the iPads for years now can only last 10 hours in a single charge and the models who lasted more were heavier. This is an interesting topic to be discussed and one that I haven’t see getting the attention it deserves. If we run battery apps they always say 10 hours for video and for a new iPad with the iOS it came with.
Now, I don’t know what does it mean to last 10 hours since that depends on some factors, such as the level of brightness and options enabled that drain more battery. Also the battery apps say more than that for different tasks. But let’s assume it’s 10 hours with 100% brightness for everyone running the last iOS and watching YouTube, and in a reality where iOS isn’t eating more battery than it should. Let’s assume it’s that for iPads sold today, even though the IPP 10.5 came with 10.3.2.
Can we expect in the future that the iPads could last 15, 20 hours or that’s an impossibility? Or that would require the devices to become heavier in weight, and for that same reason they will always be limited to these 10 hours? I know that probably the batteries today are pretty good considering the demands imposed on the devices, but to be pretty honest I always felt lame the idea of recharging my device before going to bed, everyday.
I always wanted my iPad to last at least 2, 3 days without this need, and during those days I would be watching videos, mostly. Not all the time, of course. That is impossible with any iPad. Also the AirPods batteries wear pretty quickly, yet they can be recharged in minutes. Right now we can do that faster on the iPads (with the 29W adapter), but that’s the only significant improvement I ever saw since the first iPad was released.
Or these 10 hours are not due to technical limitations, instead they are an imposition from Apple? Even the idea of planned obsolescence and wearing the batteries faster to generate more profits for them doesn’t explain why we need to recharge everyday, I mean, even if Apple wanted to last 500 instead of 1000 cycles I still don’t understand why for each cycle we need to do it so fast, in 1 instead of 2 days.
According to this chart it seems the iPads for years now can only last 10 hours in a single charge and the models who lasted more were heavier. This is an interesting topic to be discussed and one that I haven’t see getting the attention it deserves. If we run battery apps they always say 10 hours for video and for a new iPad with the iOS it came with.
Now, I don’t know what does it mean to last 10 hours since that depends on some factors, such as the level of brightness and options enabled that drain more battery. Also the battery apps say more than that for different tasks. But let’s assume it’s 10 hours with 100% brightness for everyone running the last iOS and watching YouTube, and in a reality where iOS isn’t eating more battery than it should. Let’s assume it’s that for iPads sold today, even though the IPP 10.5 came with 10.3.2.
Can we expect in the future that the iPads could last 15, 20 hours or that’s an impossibility? Or that would require the devices to become heavier in weight, and for that same reason they will always be limited to these 10 hours? I know that probably the batteries today are pretty good considering the demands imposed on the devices, but to be pretty honest I always felt lame the idea of recharging my device before going to bed, everyday.
I always wanted my iPad to last at least 2, 3 days without this need, and during those days I would be watching videos, mostly. Not all the time, of course. That is impossible with any iPad. Also the AirPods batteries wear pretty quickly, yet they can be recharged in minutes. Right now we can do that faster on the iPads (with the 29W adapter), but that’s the only significant improvement I ever saw since the first iPad was released.
Or these 10 hours are not due to technical limitations, instead they are an imposition from Apple? Even the idea of planned obsolescence and wearing the batteries faster to generate more profits for them doesn’t explain why we need to recharge everyday, I mean, even if Apple wanted to last 500 instead of 1000 cycles I still don’t understand why for each cycle we need to do it so fast, in 1 instead of 2 days.
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