On 8/25/07, frantisek holop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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...
With the original linux yes, I had it do that. but it was kind of choppy; "doing divx" is really pushing what it can do. I haven't had as much success with OpenBSD. I chalked it up to OpenBSD generally being slower because of the extra memory security or whatever. > > > 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? As in, it panics, freezes, or just mysteriously stops on average every other day. > > 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.
