Asus Eee battery life . . . . . . -Guy Macon

>Joerg wrote: > >> It would be, _if_ the battery runtime up to par. But it ain't. > >The degree to which this is an issue really depends on your usage >pattern. > >Myself, when away from home I tend to turn the thing on for 15-20 >minutes max of checking things online. > >If I'm going to be using it for hours, I'm somewhere comfortable >already, so I plug it in. > >If I were a frequent flier, had regular long train trips that >weren't on a city subway, etc then I might be using it for >longer periods on battery, and the battery endurance might be >an issue.

I use it on airplanes and in airports and have gone over three hours, and have yet to have the battery run down on me. Of course I turn off all peripherals that I am not using to conserve battery life. In the BIOS you can turn off the USB ports, Ethernet LAN, Audio, Wireless LAN, Webcam, Speaker, and Card Reader. I keep a 16GB SD card in the cardreader at all times and use the USB to back up my data, but the other peripherals are turned off. And, of course, I could get an airline power adapter and an auto power adapter. Some of the Overseas/Surf models are reported to have a

4400mAh battery, while mine has a 5200mAh that is the same physical size. There is a 10400mAh battery (Quite a bit larger; see
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for a picture) that I see advertised on eBay, or you can always keep a second charged battery in your laptop bag. Given the potential for fires, I personally only use OEM batteries. so I am waiting until Asus starts shipping the 7800mAh OEM battery (See
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). Another possibility that I haven't looked into is to underclock the Eee further than Asus is already underclocking it. I have seen info on overclocking a Eee, but haven't paid much attention. If anyone here has underclocked one, please share the details.
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as I said in my original thread regarding the power:

I used to travel with a back pack and notebook, now I carry a DVD player case over my shoulder, with the EEE PC inside.

For power, I have an EDV002SA battery backup (is really a DVD player backup), that gives me another 3 hours or so. This fits inside the player case along with the EEE PC.

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My feeling is that the EeePC was to a degree rushed to market without a perfect selection of components for low-power, and without full capability to adjust consumption to meet actual computing demand, the way a more sophisticated future design hopefully will. It's sort of falls into a technology gap - the AMD geode in the OLPC isn't powerful enough, and intel didn't seem to have a suitable low-end use-all-the- tricks low-power laptop chip available when it was designed, though they may now.

So they rushed the machine into production before it was perfect. The end result is that I've owned mine for five months and gotten lots of use out of it.

An Eee in the hand is woth 2^10 at CES

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