(Ted Harding) wrote:
On 13-May-08 12:04:54, Simon Elliott wrote:
Richard Lewis wrote:
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 12:43:47 Simon Elliott wrote:
I've also upgraded the RAM to 2gb just to make things run even smoother still.
I don't suppose you've noticed whether or not this has impacted on the battery life at all?
In fact, in general is the battery life any good in those things? My laptop gives me a pretty pathetic 3.5 hours :-(
It's supposed to be between 2 - 3.5 hours depending on if you've got wireless on / screen brightness and such things. I dunno, all I know is it's WAY more than my old laptop which has battery life of less than half an hour.. --Simon
Rumour hath it -- see e.g. the very detailed review at:
http://www.eeeuser.com/2008/05/04/eeeusercom-eeepc-900-in-depth-review/ that the eeePC 900 as supplied to the UK has an inferior battery (scroll down to the "Battery" section of the review).
Be that as it may, I could be very interested in the 900 Linux version (with 20GB RAM -- apparently the Windows version only has 12GB). And only in that version!
But finding somewhere that has it in stock so that one could go and look (and e.g. test the keyboard dimensions against the dimensions of one's fingertips) seems to be a real problem!
Does anyone know of a place where they are in stock
PC World had 701's last time I was in I was in there. Obvious warnings about PC World apply... Terrible place. Same sized keyboard though, I'd just say it takes a bit of getting used to. Some people complain about the layout of the arrow keys and right-shift but I'm pretty much used to it already.. Having Pidgin and such automatically correct spelling errors is handy.
--Simon