hmm, on Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:04:29AM -0400, Nick Guenther said that > The battery life is 7 hours (12 if you pull magic hax of making the > screen turn off when not in use and compulsively put it in standby > most of the time) and a lot less with a wifi card in.
7h is not that bad compared to a notebook (e.g. on a plane). > What's your usage like? It's too slow to run anything graphical > reasonably, though you can if you absolutely have to. I mostly keep it > in console with screen running a bunch of different windows with mg > running, for various note takings. slow for graphics? but the default system is all grahic, isn't it? and some reseller ad said it can do divx's... > It doesn't work for every day usage. I'm getting used to it but it's > still too flakey to be trusted. I'm slowly hacking in things that make too flakey to bu trusted? what's that mean? the problem is that 7"-13" (sub 2 kg category) stuff is just starting to emerge and is either not possible to buy yet, insanely expensive or both.. i would be perfectly ok with an OLPC kind of notebook but they just started this ball rolling for the competition. -f -- if you live long enough, it will kill you...
