Re: [NTLK] A bit of a mystery

From: Frank Gruendel <newtontalk_at_pda-soft.de>
Date: Sat Mar 17 2007 - 12:16:17 EDT

> Hmm very very interesting. I have to wonder
> why in the world they bothered with a backup
> battery in the MP130 then?

Probably because they wanted to change as little
as possible of the MP120 design when the 130 was
conceived.

To the best of my knowledge supercaps hadn't been
invented yet when Apple developed the MP120 (or they
just had, but were still very expensive).

Frank

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