When I first got my Eee PC 1000HA two or three years ago, I immediately noticed that it got far better battery life on Windows - about 4 hours, as opposed to 3

When I first got my Eee PC 1000HA two or three years ago, I immediately noticed that it got far better battery life on Windows - about 4 hours, as opposed to 3 on Ubuntu and Arch Linux. That lead me to just stick with Windows XP for a few years. Things seems to have improved now, though. I installed Slackware 13.37 on it about a week ago, and it gets a full 4 hours: david@Fnord ~]$ acpi Battery 0: Discharging, 100%, 04:10:47 remaining [david@Fnord ~]$ uname -a Linux Fnord 2.6.37.6-smp #2 SMP Sat Apr 9 23:39:07 CDT 2011 i686 Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux I'd give Linux another shot on the laptop.