I would expect something like 9 hours from that thing (they estimate it under ideal conditions with most things turned off) but yeah, I have found mine great for traveling. On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com<mbmiller%2Bl at gmail.com> > wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Mike Miller wrote: > > > Right now the message I'm getting is that these Asus Eee machines are > > great and a bunch of Linux distros run really well on them. > > > And so I just ordered these items from Amazon.com: > > > http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-1005HA-PU1X-BU-10-1-Inch-Blue-Netbook/dp/tech-data/B002DYIXMS/ > > http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-CT25664AC667-200-Pin-SODIMM-Laptop/dp/B000F7QRTG > > There were a lot of options: > > http://event.asus.com/eeepc/comparison/eeepc_comparison.htm > > Even within a category like "Eee PC 1005HA" there were at least the PU1X > model (which I ordered) and the MU17 model, and then a choice of BK > (black) or BU (blue) after that. > > With free S/H and the 2GB RAM it was slightly less than $400. > > I think I'm going to enjoy using this little netbook on planes. It has > 10.5 hours of normal-use battery life (they say) and it's small, so it > will fit between me and the guy in front of me -- that was a problem with > the big Dell laptop I last owned. With 160 GB of HDD I can load a lot of > cool software on there, DVD ISOs, MP3 files, etc. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20091110/080929ca/attachment.htm