Faster Processor Means Less Battery Life For Nintendo DSi

Tear apart of the DSi reveals that better sound and speedier processor responsible for drop in battery life.

By Kat Bailey, 11/10/2008

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"The Nintendo DSi has a bigger screen, a better processor and an SD card slot, but one thing the DS Lite (and the humble DS Phat) still have on their younger brother is roughly one to six hours of battery life. And now it looks like we know why."

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3171208

Comments

By admin @ Monday, November 10, 2008 1:02 PM

I'm waiting on confirmation from him or someone else in the know on what this supposed faster processor is and what it's clocked at. So far it seems like the dude is just guessing.

By NutMan @ Monday, November 10, 2008 5:28 PM

According to Kotaku, the battery life for the DSi is half of the Lite's. Too bad.

By NutMan @ Monday, November 10, 2008 5:30 PM

Some info on the processor: http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/dsi-broken-down-new-processor-drains-battery-483138

By admin @ Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:14 PM

Yea dude. Actually if you follow these links to the website of the guy who actually broke the thing down, you'll see that everyone is just quoting him and he is actually guessing about the new CPU. He says he'll test it later, but people that have replied to his posting say he's full of shit. So I dunno... I want official proof of this. Not to mention, a Faster ARM and you could probably run Windows Mobile on this thing.

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