Hello,

I have a new 15" MBP Aluminum. It's the 2.53 GHz with a 320GB 7200 HD.

I don't seem to be getting very good battery life. I just unplugged the power cord and it estimates 2:50. I only have Safari and Mail running. I am connected over WiFi and Bluetooth is turned on. The screen brightness is at the lowest setting. I am running in Power Saver mode with the lower powered video card. I conditioned my battery when I first got it.

Here is what iStat provides:
Cycles 8
Health 100%
99%, 2:50 remaining.

Here is the Power information from the System Profiler.

Model Information:
Serial Number: SMP-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx
Manufacturer: SMP
Device name: bq20z951
Pack Lot Code: 0000
PCB Lot Code: 0000
Firmware Version: 002a
Hardware Revision: 000a
Cell Revision: 0100
Charge Information:
Charge remaining (mAh): 4282
Fully charged: No
Charging: No
Full charge capacity (mAh): 4643
Health Information:
Cycle count: 8
Condition: Good
Battery Installed: Yes
Amperage (mA): -1571
Voltage (mV): 12094


The other day, I unplugged the MBP and took it to work. I only turned it on when I was teaching. I used the mini adapter to connect the MBP to the projector. After I taught, I closed the lid and when I got home the power was down to 10%.!! So I was only able to get about 1.5 hours out of it for the day. The screen was on full brightness when I was teaching however.

Are other getting less than 3hrs battery life? Does this sound about right? Any suggestions?

Cheers.

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Sharp is expanding its suite of Wide-XGA (WXGA) Projectors with a new DLP BrilliantColor model that combines vibrant color reproduction and affordability.

Now I realize you’ve been drooling over those new mini-projectors for a while now, but if you’d rather have an extra-large experience and already own a normal projector, you’re in luck:

Remember that “velvety” inflatable couch you had in college? Well, we’ve found you the perfect TV to go along with it – the Open Air Cinema 16 Foot Inflatable Movie Screen. The 16ft x 9ft, widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio, 20-pound inflatable movie screen is the perfect compliment to any backyard (if you’re lucky enough to have a backyard, ahem). Just don’t go filling it with helium - that’s a very, very bad idea; this potential balloon is available at an introductory price of $999, or purchase their CineBox Home complete backyard theater system which includes projection, sound and all necessary cables for $3,299 - you’ll instantly have the most popular backyard on the block and you can recoup the expense by charging admission and selling refreshments…

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Open Air Inflatable Movie Screen Goes Well With The Rest Of Your Inflatable Furniture originally appeared on Gear Live on Thu, December 04, 2008 - 12:40:36

Not even 24 hours after we found the 3M MPRO110, we discovered Adtec’s AD-MP15A. This mini-projector also uses LED as a light source for 20,000+ hours of usage and works with a/v equipment, laptops and cell phones. The device has 15 lumens of brightness and a 200:1 contrast ratio. At a size of 27 x 58 x 90mm and a weight of 147g, the pocket-sized projector features a built-in 0.3W mono speaker and runs on a Lithium-ion battery that is good for about 40 min. The AD-MP hits Japan’s shelves sometime this month for Â¥39,800 (~$427.00.)

Tags: a/v equipment, adtec ad-mp15a, cell phone, images, laptops, led, mini-projector, projector,

Adtec AD-MP15A Mini-Projector originally appeared on Gear Live on Thu, December 04, 2008 - 10:20:51

pTiny 3M projector fits in the palm of your hand and throws images up to 50-inches./ppa href="http://arstechnica.com/journals/hardware.ars/2008/12/03/3m-announces-lilliputian-projector-for-the-seriously-mobile"Read More.../a/p

via MacNN:

Japan's Adtec recently introduced its AD-MP15A liquid-crystal on silicone (LCoS) mobile projector good for resolutions of either 640x480 or 800x600 and a native aspect ratio of 4:3. Meant for quick, on-the-go presentations, its battery life is rated at 40 minutes. Brightness is rated at 15 lumens, while the contrast ratio is set at 200:1....


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The Evolution Control Committee has developed a new interface for music software using 2 Wii remotes and a projector. Input is controlled via infrared LED thimble-gloves against a rear-projection screen. Certainly a speedier way to trigger the massive amount of Ableton Live loops seen in the above video. - Based off of Johnny Chung Lee's whiteboard, we assembled a four-foot rear-projected faux touchscreen. It's perfect for our Wheel Of Mashup shows, which depend on an overloaded setup of Ableton Live. - Video Mashup Screen Demo

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Japan's Adtec recently introduced its AD-MP15A liquid-crystal on silicone (LCoS) mobile projector good for resolutions of either 640x480 or 800x600 and a native aspect ratio of 4:3. Meant for quick, on-the-go presentations, its battery life is rated at 40 minutes. Brightness is rated at 15 lumens, while the contrast ratio is set at 200:1....

With nearly every company (seriously, basically all of them) rolling out a tiny projector, it's getting pretty hard to stand out from the crowd -- and Adtec's two new MP15A Series projectors don't look like they're going to push the envelope in any way. Specwise, they're going to be nearly identical to the rest of the bunch, with 15 ANSI lumens, a 200:1 contrast ratio, and VGA 640 x 480 resolution, and they'll boast an LED lamp with about a 20,000 hour life. The two models -- the 15AW is white, 15AB is black -- will be available in December and January, respectively, but only in Japan. No word on a possible release in other, pico-starved areas of the globe yet.

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div align="center"a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adtec.co.jp%2Fpressrelease%2F2008%2F081203%2Findex.htmlamp;hl=enamp;ie=UTF-8amp;sl=jaamp;tl=en"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/ad-mp15aw_a1-1.jpg" alt="" //abr / div align="left"With a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/10/aiptek-pocket-cinema-v10-available-for-pre-order-on-amazon/"nearly every company/a (a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/acers-k10-pocket-projector-announced-projected-for-january/"seriously/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/11/kairens-projector-x-pro920m-is-small-but-not-impressively-so/"basically all of them/a) rolling out a a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/24/optoma-dlc-pico-projector-coming-soon-to-us/"tiny projector/a, it's getting pretty hard to stand out from the crowd -- and Adtec's two new MP15A Series projectors don't look like they're going to push the envelope in any way. Specwise, they're going to be nearly identical to the a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/dells-m109s-pocket-projector-gets-itself-a-ho-hum-review/"rest of the bunch/a, with 15 ANSI lumens, a 200:1 contrast ratio, and VGA 640 x 480 resolution, and they'll boast an LED lamp with about a 20,000 hour life. The two models -- the 15AW is white, 15AB is black -- will be available in December and January, respectively, but only in Japan. No word on a possible release in other, pico-starved areas of the globe yet. br /br /[Via a href="http://www.aboutprojectors.com/news/2008/12/03/adtec-announces-ad-mp15aw-and-ad-mp15ab-projectors/"About Projectors/a]span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)" style=""span class="s3m"strong/strong/span/span/div /divpFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/displays/" rel="tag"Displays/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/adtec-announces-two-adorable-tiny-projectors/"Adtec announces two adorable, tiny projectors/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:46:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adtec.co.jp%2Fpressrelease%2F2008%2F081203%2Findex.htmlamp;hl=enamp;ie=UTF-8amp;sl=jaamp;tl=enRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/adtec-announces-two-adorable-tiny-projectors/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1390106/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/03/adtec-announces-two-adorable-tiny-projectors/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/QxWkETuZ6-5-F7fUNbpiRgSCOkE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/QxWkETuZ6-5-F7fUNbpiRgSCOkE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Une4z0NK"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=Une4z0NK" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=H1eWHvwM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=H1eWHvwM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/qTehW7DQWFM" height="1" width="1"/

centerimg title="Adtec AD-MP15A Pico Projector" style="MARGIN: 0px" alt="Adtec AD-MP15A Pico Projector" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/12/adtec-admp15a.jpg" border="0" //centerbr / pFancy carrying a tiny projector that fits into the palm of your hand comfortably? Well, the Adtec AD-MP15A pico projector relies on LED technology for its light source, throwing out a bold, vivid picture for the whole family - as long as you're not living in a castle, that is. The Adtec AD-MP15A comes wih 15 lumens brightness and a 200:1 contrast ratio which isn't too hot by normal projector standards, but don't forget that this is a pico projector to begin with. Other specifications include a 0.3W mono speaker, a 20,000 hour LED life and easy connectivity to a range of compatible equipment such as a laptop, cell phone and other AV devices. You will be able to pick up the Adtec AD-MP15A in Japan later this month for $427./p pPermalink: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/12/adtec_admp15a_pico_projector.html"Adtec AD-MP15A Pico Projector/a from Ubergizmo (a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"US/a, a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/fr"FR/a) | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a | Hot: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/blackberry_storm_review.html"Storm Review/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081203082552" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081203082552?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081203082552" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081203082552amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F12%2Fadtec_admp15a_pico_projector.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/wayYOr21y7Fkl7HUe6f7l1e4Ayw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/wayYOr21y7Fkl7HUe6f7l1e4Ayw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=4gd4B5uj"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=Fqdd2nOP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=Fqdd2nOP" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=wiEX6TBp"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=GtgNJ5Ew"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=GtgNJ5Ew" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=zbsyFFpI"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=zbsyFFpI" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ubergizmo/~4/myMhlQmJ8wo" height="1" width="1"/

I think we can all admit that there's something magical about the 8mm video format. Before there was VHS, and way before there were digital video cameras, there was Super-8, pretty much the only game in town if you were trying to get your memories recorded onto video without spending thousands of dollars. This could explain why today when we see Super-8 footage today, it almost automatically invokes a sense of nostalgia, as if we are peering into the timeless memories of the pre-80's.

But really, like many people who grew up in the age of the VHS tape, my first exposure to the Super-8 format was probably this:

Yep, the opening sequence to The Wonder Years. The reason for this sequence being done in Super-8 now seems quite obvious: It invokes the slightly faded memories of the 1960's through the nostalgic, grainy filter of small-format video.

So what's the story behind this format?

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The palm-size micro projector Adtec AD-MP15A uses LED for light source. The projector with bold, vivid picture quality is ideal for average size rooms. With 15lumens brightness, 200 to 1 contact ratio, the Adtec LED projector is powered by mains as well as with the built in Lithium-ion battery. Once charged, the battery lasts for about 40 minutes....

We have shown you a few mini-projectors this year, including the minute Microvision SHOW. Now 3M has unveiled their MPRO110, a battery operated device that can project movies, photos or files. It is compatible with laptops, iPods, digital cameras and mutimedia cell phones with an extra cable. The MPRO features LED technology and can get up to 10,000 hours of use. At a size of 11 x 5 x 2cm, it can fit into your pocket or backpack. The projector carries a MSRP of around $359.00.

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3M MPRO110 Projector originally appeared on Gear Live on Wed, December 03, 2008 - 10:47:47

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