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I’m : a programmer, writer, podcaster, geek, and coffee enthusiast.

In order to get 10 hours of battery life, the entire iPad (including display) has to pull less than 2.5 Watts on average.

iFixit. Wow. I hadn’t bothered to do the math in my head, so I didn’t realize how impressive that was until now. That’s insane.

If we didn’t have proof right here in front of us, I’d insist that 2.5W total power consumption for a computer with a brightly backlit 9” LCD while playing videos and browsing the web was impossible.