ASUS Battery life?

[Guest hi-tekmobility]

Hi,

I was wondering if yo uguys have seen big differences in terms of battery life when running either XP or Vista on the Eee PC. I would imagine that with Vista the battery would drain a lot faster.

Also, I have read that the processor is capped to 600 MHz, does this change to 900 MHz when loading XP?

Thanks

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

XP seems to drain a bit quicker than Xandros...

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[Guest Monolithix]

Still 600MHz on XP here...

[Guest webcomconsulting]

Getting 3 1/2 hours on Vista here and over 4 hours on Tiger and Leopard.

YES VIDEO IS ALMOST DONE!

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

Nice!

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[Guest Kaiser Wilhelm II]

Given that the CPU is a low power Celeron-M running at 600-900 Mhz, the disk is solid state and the screen is a fairly weeny 7" is anyone else surprised that the battery life is only 3.5 hrs or so?

What's the deal there - is the battery just extra weedy or something as I'd expect to get quite a bit more life out of a machine with these specs....

[Guest webcomconsulting]

Given that the CPU is a low power Celeron-M running at 600-900 Mhz, the disk is solid state and the screen is a fairly weeny 7" is anyone else surprised that the battery life is only 3.5 hrs or so?

What's the deal there - is the battery just extra weedy or something as I'd expect to get quite a bit more life out of a machine with these specs....

Once running at 900mhz battery life is alot less!

I just updated bios to my Vista ASUS EEE PC to get it running 900mhz. Battery life is only around 2- 2.5 hours, but holly crap much faster. Going to try it on my Tiger ASUS EEE PC, after im done doing my video.

[Guest Eeepcnews]

the battery life with this 5200mAh battery is just extremely poor!

using Xandros in easy mode should save lotsa energy but i can hardly make 3.5 hours.

my 12" with 1.6Ghz Centrino and 4200mAh battery lasts for 4.5 hours!!!

[Guest Kaiser Wilhelm II]

Yeah - that's what I'm talking about. For a low-Mhz power saving CPU the machine really does seem to have a pretty weedy battery life (though still reasonable compared to a typical laptop). What is eating all that power - surely not the 7" screen :(

Edited December 27, 2007 by Kaiser Wilhelm II