Will New Blu-ray Drives Suck Your Laptop Battery Dry?

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• February 29, 2008
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  Will New Blu-ray Drives Suck Your Laptop Battery Dry?

  Posted: February 29th, 2008, 2:30am

  One reason Blu-ray drives haven't shown up in many notebook PCs may be that early versions of the drives are power hogs, eating up so much battery life that you might only get halfway through a movie before needing to plug in.