6th June 2009, 9:42 PM
Not using the disk drive improves battery life in my PSP, so that's a good question (mine's a 2000 model, I got it exchanged way back when using clever timing with warrentees and shelf stocking, and honestly after looking at what the 3000 offers I don't have much motivation to get that model either). I can only assume that when they shrunk down the thickness of it (considerably in the case of the battery considering it has to fit in half that thickness since it slides apart), they had to shrink down the battery which would of course directly reduce the charge it could hold.
There's a possibility of a special higher capacity battery pack released for it, if one is willing to accept a bump in the case due to the battery needing to be larger as a result. That's the case with the 2000/3000 anyway.
I can only say that battery life is now not a possible selling point. Whatever gains they get from loading directly from a memory stick instead of a UMD drive appear to have been cancelled out somehow, so it's basically identical in that respect.
There's a possibility of a special higher capacity battery pack released for it, if one is willing to accept a bump in the case due to the battery needing to be larger as a result. That's the case with the 2000/3000 anyway.
I can only say that battery life is now not a possible selling point. Whatever gains they get from loading directly from a memory stick instead of a UMD drive appear to have been cancelled out somehow, so it's basically identical in that respect.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)