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Liliputing: Eee PC 900 battery life: Not so good

  • Korgmeister · 1 year ago
    Fair cop, Brad! Didn't ASUS say they were going to fix their low capacity battery goof several weeks ago? I think you even wrote a post on this site about that.
  • Brad Linder · 1 year ago
    It's still not clear to me if Asus will be shipping ALL new units with the higher capacity battery, or if the company will just be replacing the batteries of customers who complain.
  • LarryRubin · 1 year ago
    Slightly off topic but related- a couple blogs yesterday reported that US pre-orders for the 900 would begin today. None of the retailers listed in those reports seem to be offering them yet.

    Do you have any info about this?
  • saab_rider · 1 year ago
    28-33 minutes difference... I'd say that's acceptable by my standards.

    I plan to get my 900 with the 5800 anyway. Maybe the 5200... But not the 4400.

    Plus I want to get the 10400 mAh battery too. Would be nice to see results of the 10400 on the 900 compared to the 700.
  • mmj · 1 year ago
    According to the tests done here, the battery life of the Eee 900 far outlasts all the similar products tested including the HP mini-note (with extended battery) and the Sony TZ.

    http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?c...
  • Jim · 1 year ago
    That doesn't seem too bad to me considering the larger screen and the Eee 900 also runs the CPU at the full 900MHz, not 630MHz like the 701.
  • BobH · 1 year ago
    There is a very extensive report on the 900 at eeeuser.com from someone in the UK. It has the 4400 battery. Interesting is that it appears that the wireless is not as good at picking up a signal in the 900 as in the 701.