[CoLoCo] asus eee battery life

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I personally am going to wait for the Dell UMPC before I make my mind up,
but I have been hearing really good reviews of the MSI Wind but I believe it
only comes installed with XP. Don't know if that will be an issue or if you
are just going to load them all up with a flavor of Linux anyways. The
battery life looks to be around 5 hours and it is supposedly cheaper than
the Asus (but rumors say price was increased yesterday). It has the new ATOM
processor but sports a 80GB HD instead of a SSD (don't know if that matters
to you).

Here is a review from Laptop Mag -
http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/msi-wind.aspx
Here are the specs -
http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/msi-wind.aspx?mode=specs

-Simon

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>wrote:

> 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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