"Guenter Scholz" wrote in message
...

well, to be specific, a 20 gig player with about 5 meg per song gives
about 400 songs.

Huh???

Isn't 20GB / 5MB = 4,000 songs?

And if only 3MB per song, then 6,667 songs?

Not to defend Ipod and their BOGUS battery.

Regards,

BG

In article ,
says...
In , William Sommerwerck wrote in part:

.... And the poster claimed that a CD player
that ran 50 hours on alkalines should run 60 hours on premium NiMH
rechargeables -- which is highly unlikely.

Alkaline AA cells provide about 1.6 amp-hours. Premium NiMH ones
provide 2 amp-hours. I have seen claims of 2.1, even 2.3 lately... NiMH
has been advancing in recent years!


Evidently so have alkalines. Energizer claims 3.1AH for their AA E2
series and 2.7AH for the standard AA bunnies.

http://data.energizer.com/

--
Keith

Alkaline AA cells provide about 1.6 amp-hours. Premium NiMHs
provide 2 amp-hours. I have seen claims of 2.1, even 2.3 lately...
NiMH has been advancing in recent years!

Evidently so have alkalines. Energizer claims 3.1AH for their AA
E2 series and 2.7AH for the standard AA bunnies.

There is also the fact that, if the product is designed to work down to 1V per
cell, the rechargeable battery doesn't have as far to "drop" to hit that
voltage. The disposable has more "headroom."

In article , William Sommerwerck wrote:
Alkaline AA cells provide about 1.6 amp-hours. Premium NiMHs
provide 2 amp-hours. I have seen claims of 2.1, even 2.3 lately...
NiMH has been advancing in recent years!

Evidently so have alkalines. Energizer claims 3.1AH for their AA
E2 series and 2.7AH for the standard AA bunnies.

There is also the fact that, if the product is designed to work down to 1V per
cell, the rechargeable battery doesn't have as far to "drop" to hit that
voltage. The disposable has more "headroom."

Disposable batteries have voltage "drooping" more during the discharge
than rechargeable ones do. NiCd and NiMH cells still produce about 1.1v
per cell when 85-90% of the way discharged. Alkalines droop worse than
that.

- Don Klipstein )