michael watterson uvtjseircomnet conor wynne wrote battery life sucks 35 hours makes worse useless linux good enough ten hours teeney screen like suspect linux power management know used linux ibook g4 man rubbish power wise hours less run time charge anyone decent pm linux laptop running battery mean whats teency disk anyway 8gb thats rubbish linux fault battery must small designed 8 10hrs shouldnt need power management bar turning backlight screen altogether desired two laptops one ubuntu older one xp vmware run 3 versions linux power management turned xp performance get 2hrs however drop 1800mhz 1200mhz battery 70w psu get 1800mhz 90w psu bios feature inspiron 8200 1600x1200 screen 120g drive 768m ram p4 desktop cpu dim display set hd driver power get almost 3 hrs flash memory disk lot flash based embedded cpu devices 4m flash yes four megabyte run linux decent arm based equivalent eeee pc 1g would fine 4g bad linux x86 used install rh6 2g disks built arm based 320x240 touchscreen 2 x small lipoly ipod 2200ma cells 5mbps mobile internet power management get nearly 4 hrs linux fitted 98v worth nimh aa cells mips based router wifi mobile internet modem 5mbps got 4hrs 15min regularly linux yes 35hrs class low power optimised cpu poor obviously battery needs 3 times bigger regards conor nov 17 2007 955 michael watterson wrote patrick oconnor wrote unfortunately beltronics sold batch already best option get 4g christmas might expansys says site offer discount 5 units ill mail monday see id prefer 8g havent heard anything conclusive delivery christmas ill update everyone registered interest hear back expansys patrick httpwwwrmcomleaproductsproductaspcrefpd1030046 think 8g needed much space left 4g mike irish linux users group mailing list list httpmaillinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug httpwwwlinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemap mike fri 08 aug 2008 103808 0000 ilug interest getting eeepc