Since I'm trying to figure this strange battery issue ( 
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2012-May/035198.html ) I also tried to 
test the XO-1(os880), XO-1.5(os883) and -1.75(os10) battery life and thought to 
report it. It might be of help to someone.
The "strange" battery was not part of this test of course (though its results 
are quite comparable with the good batteries). 

All batteries were fully charged. The XO-1.75 and thus its battery is ~1.5 
years newer that the ones in the XO-1, -1.5

The test was done is Sugar and during the entire test the backlight was on and 
the "rolling" count output was displayed in the terminal activity. The XOs were 
associated with the same AP but no network or other activity was running.

Battery level was determined from the power-logs (the second column)

For the test, the CPUs were running this simple loop script in terminal:

`#!/bin/bash

let count=0

while :

do

echo “Count is: $count”

((count++))

done'

Starting from fully charged batteries after ~70 minutes of running the XO-1 was 
at 60% the XO-1.5 at 55% and the XO-1.75 at 80% (It can really go 5 hours :-)
The "count" displayed at the end of the run from the script was
7575933 for the XO-1.75, 12542538 for the XO-1.5 and 4618306 for the XO-1.

I can appreciate that this is far from a CPU/computer performance test but 
taking counts just as an *indication* of CPU/FPU performance would imply that 
the XO-1.75 is 65% faster than the XO-1 but 40% slower(?) than the XO-1.5.
Considering counts/discharge however, the XO-1.75 appears 33% more efficient 
than the XO-1.5 and 320%(!) more efficient than the XO-1

One thing I noticed is that while on the XO-1 and XO-1.5 the output was a 
constant stream of new lines without and "hesitations" and the cursor barely 
visible, on the XO-1.75 were "hesitations" and the cursor was appearing at the 
end of the line during these "hiccups".
I was wondering if this might be related to X performance rather but still 
affects the final result on the XO-1.75.
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