[CoLoCo] asus eee battery life

[Jim Hutchinson]

We are looking to buy about 30 small laptops for a mobile lab at my high
school. We are looking at the HP mini note which I'm enjoying (but I don't
like suse) but the battery life is horrible (~90 min). The Asus is also on
our list (new 901 model). I noticed it has up to 6 hours battery life on a 6
cell but if we buy the xp model we can get up to 8 hours. WHAT? shouldn't
Linux be able to offer better battery life or at least on par with xp? This
is not going to help promote Linux.

Anyway, does anyone know if that 6 hours is before or after the Intel
tweaks? Does anyone have real world experience on battery life on the eee?

On a related note, does anyone have any other suggestions for laptops like
these that we should consider? We want something will just work and not be a
geek toy that will require a lot of work to get working right. Low price and
long battery life are the key points. Also cool looking and Linux based
would be nice as I'm trying to push Linux as a viable alternative.

Thanks.

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