Hi, I read through the thread provided by Marco and I'd like to give in my bit of suggestion:
We clearly do not want to mislead the user by giving him a misleading number (the remaining time). I agree with Aaron that this will make the user trust his computer less. What I suggest is let the user know down right that the number might be inaccurate before he chooses to use the feature. So in the config ui, put a warning in the brackets beside the config check box: (Warning: the reported remaining time of the battery will be a predicted value, and hence may be inaccurate). Now when the user is aware that the remaining time might be misleading he will keep that in mind whenever he sees the information and whenever it is wrong, he won't blame his computer. I'd generally not give my suggestion in a burning discussion, but since we all agree this is a good feature to have and knowing that the only roadblock in shipping this feature is the inaccuracy of it, I thought the above suggestion might work out to "kind of" dissolve the road block, while relevant people can continue working on making the numbers more accurate. Cheers, Viranch
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