[CoLoCo] asus eee battery life

[siblog]

Another one that I just read about after posting is the Acer Aspire one that
runs Linpus Lite. A good bargain but battery life looks poor when compared
to others - "regular use, including surfing the Web, listening to music over
Pandora, and word processing, the mini-notebook got 1 hour and 58 minutes".
It sports the Atom processor and has an 8GB SSD

Review - http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/acer-aspire-one-linux.aspx

-Simon

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:34 PM, siblog <tehsiblog at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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