On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 09:35 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote: > IMPRESSIONS > > It was hard to give it back to her. That thing is useful! I'm curious if you tested to see how long the battery lasted. One of the bugbears of any portable computing, is how long you can use the thing for when you're not plugged into the mains. My laptop manages about 2 hours, which isn't really enough. It should be able manage 3 hours (still not enough), but doesn't, not even when using the original Windows installation. You can probably stretch it to about 2.5 hours, by dimming the screen way too much. But that's not really practical. Nor is having a collection of swappable batteries, apart from the weight and clutter, the charger can't charge a battery outside of the computer. It's a shame that portable computers don't really offer a way to completely turn *off* some of hardware (optical drives, all the networking circuitry, all the sound circuitry, etc.) as a configurable battery-saving scheme. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
