Liam Proven wrote: > 2009/2/21 Andrew Oakley <and...@aoakley.com>: >> Paul Sutton wrote: >>> http://www.notebooks.com/2009/01/07/new-generation-of-netbooks-199-and-299-eight-hour-battery-sexy-design/ >> Interesting, but the Intel Atom x86-based Asus Eee 901 can already >> provide 8 hours of battery life. I've got one, and it really does. > > Only with an extended battery, driving up both the price and weight. > The standard battery in the cheap ones gives about 2-3h, on a par with > most of the cheap subnotebooks.
The "standard" battery is 5800ma. You CAN get 5-6 hours if the screen isn't too bright and you don't try to run a HSDPA dongle/Bluetooth/Wifi > >> Whilst I know Canonical are producing an ARM netbook distro of Ubuntu, >> it'll be interesting to see whether the other things that we >> all-too-often rely on, such as Adobe Flash, will be compiled for ARM. >> Trying to sell a netbook to the hip'n'trendy young professional market, >> that doesn't play Youtube, will be a difficult venture. > > Er, did you RTFA? They make a point of mentioning this in the piece. > -- Life is too short. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/