Re: [Hampshire] Long Life Netbook style device

Philip Stubbs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With the recent proliferation of netbooks, it seems strange to me that
> they seem to have such a short life on batteries. For something that
> is designed to be used on the move, I would want it to work all day.
>
> In fact, my wife has a very good use for such a device, but it would
> only be really useful if it had at least a six hour life. All my wife
> wants to do is take notes. However changing batteries multiple times,
> is really not ideal.
>
> Does anybody know of a netbook style device that can operate for this
> sort of time? It only really needs a to be just big enough to have a
> reasonable size keyboard to make it useful.
>
I sold my eeePC 701 and bought a 901. I don't use it "all" day, but I
never bother taking the power adaptor with me. Officially rated at 7+
hours, but I expect 5+ being more realistic, particularly when you
include running WIFI, Bluetooth, and/or an HSDPA modem

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