with the 8-cell battery this year.
The notebook does not have an optical drive which reduces power
consumption. =20
The X60 is getting about 5 hours which is enough for the day.
Our notebook computers are student owned and we attempt to help the
students become responsible for charging and battery
maintenance/replacement.
If the students lose a power adapter they can purchase one from our
repair center. We have the students purchase the replacement battery
from an online vendor. The shelf life on the battery seems to be about
6-12 months so we stopped stocking them.
Jason Hyams
Director of Technology =20
St. Agnes Academy
=20
-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of David Rossell
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 6:24 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Battery "best practices" in an 1:1 environment
I think battery technology lags farthest behind all of the others that
go
into our portable computers and is the biggest challenge for a 1-1
program.
For us, the states are pretty high, since we've done away with
paper-based
notes for virtually all classes in grades 6-8--kids are using their
tablets
and OneNote to take notes all day long. The only workable solution has
been
to provide charging stations (non-moving carts) for tablets at school
and a
spare AC adapter that students are supposed to take home and use here to
supplement in-cart charging. Kids who forget their AC adapter at home
can
check out a loaner and return it at the end of the day.
We're exploring different laptop models that have better power
consumption
curves and are especially excited by the idea of moving to solid-state
hard
drives, but for the moment the reality is that if kids are going to use
their
technology in all of their classes, we can't cut the cord.
David
David Rossell
Administrator of Network Services and Planning
Norwood School
8821 River Rd.
Bethesda, MD 20817
(301) 841-2178
drossell@norwoodschool.org
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