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Re:HP Chromebook 11 Review by rayiner on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @02:14PM (#6555213)
You can't compare battery ratings in milliamp hours unless you know that the load voltage is the same for both.
Re:HP Chromebook 11 Review by bronson on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @02:56PM (#6555501)
Of course you can. If you read some datasheets you'll see that's how batteries are rated.
Re:HP Chromebook 11 Review by rayiner on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @03:10PM (#6555621)
Batteries are rated in milliamp hours at a given voltage. You can't directly compare ratings in milliamp hours without accounting for the voltage. Watt-hour ratings, in contrast, bake assumptions about the average battery voltage into the rating, and thus can be compared directly even between batteries having different voltages.

In this case, it's common sense. There is no way a Nexus 10 has a battery four times as large as an 11.6" notebook.