A Neo Milestone
So there I was, happily tapping away on my AlphaSmart Neo late last night (or early this morning) when a message appeared on the screen. No, no alien had invaded my Neo. It was just the low battery warning.
Let’s see, I’d installed the batteries on 1 September 2007, in preparation for my trip to China later that same month. So, the batteries have been in use for a total of 269 days. I used it between 2 and 3 hours everyday, leaning more to 3 hours, so I’d put 2/3rds of those days, approximately 180 days, at 3-hour usage, and the remaining 89 days at 2.5-hour usage.
That’s a total of 762.5 hours of battery life on one set of 3 AAs over 269 days.
Pretty impressive. And this is just one reason why I love AlphaSmart products.
