Patrick has issued the Icrontic community a little challenge to see if we can all be part of the battery life metric solution. I am going to write a follow up post with an idea to facilitate the discussion.

I imagine some of the folks here will have ideas far better than mine. Take a day, brainstorm. How do you use your laptop? What would a good testing regimen be? Who should be held accountable for the accuracy of the statistics? How would you like the stats reported? Think about it, I will be posting the follow up shortly and once we have some realy good discussion and ideas we are going to challenge AMD to run them up the ladder, and eventualy implement improvements with their partners.

Offline from Icrontic, I have had a few folks challenge the AMD strategy to say "you know, the only reason they do this is to make Intel look bad", While that might seem like a reasonable objective for AMD, I think there is more to it than that, and as consumers of tech products, we should challenge them to prove it. Personally, I have faith, I realy think social media in corporate space is something new and exciting, I think its going to lead to better relationships, and ultimately better products for all of us.