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Which netbooks have better battery life? I have trouble getting 2 hours out of my Eee. I guess you can lug around a 9-cell battery, but damn.
by qwzybug 16y ago
Which netbooks have better battery life? I have trouble getting 2 hours out of my Eee. I guess you can lug around a 9-cell battery, but damn.
- DrSprout 16y agoWell, they would have better battery life if someone would build one. The ultimate coding/writing machine for me would be a full-size Lenovo chassis/battery with a 7 inch screen and a 500mhz arm CPU. Plus maybe some solar panels on the back of the screen so I could conceivably go a summer without plugging it in. I'm seriously considering hacking one out of one of the cheapo Android tablets, but if Lenovo would just release the Skylight already I'd just buy one of those and probably plug a real keyboard into it.
- jrockway 16y agoI have an Eee 1005PE. I've never run out of battery before, so I don't know what the actual life is, but the indicator says 12 hours. That's with 3G/4G and the backlight reasonably bright. Without radio or bright backlighting, it's more like 16. (And it's not a 9-cell battery, either.) (One problem with netbooks is that they cut corners to be cheap. I would like to see what a non-corner-cutting netbook could do. The Macbook Air is pretty close.)
- sorbus 16y agoHuh. I have the same model, and I generally get around eight hours, albeit on Arch, not the included Windows 7. Are you using Windows 7? If so, it might be a good idea to reinstall it ...
- jrockway 16y agoYes, I'm using Windows. Because there are no 4G drivers for Linux yet. (OK, Intel has drivers, but there are no products that include Intel's chipset... so...)
- sliverstorm 16y agoDo you have one of the older models? I owned a 701 when they first came out, and I don't remember very good battery life, but the technology was new and I've heard recent models have much better life.