Increase Your Battery Life - Reduce Your Productivity?

Who doesn't want to squeeze every last juice out of their notebook/netbook battery?

Problem is, there always seems to be a cost involved.

Reducing brightness - Trying to convince myself it's bright enough at the lower settings. Then getting headaches and eye strain afterwards and blaming it on fatigue.

Power Settings - Maximum battery setting means I have to adjust my power patience setting to maximum too.

Turn off unnecessary ports - What? The inbuilt camera uses power when I'm not using it? Is this some sick joke?

Turn off pretty features on the OS - But they make unimportant work just a tiny bit bearable.

Hate to admit it.

There's no two ways about it.

Just buy that clunky, oversize, protruding, 'I'm going to convince myself it doesn't look ugly' extra long life battery and be done with it.

Unless you have a macbook air.

Asus Eee PC 1000HE: 9.5 Hours!

New processor which is 0.06Ghz faster, and a increase in 134Mhz Front Side Bus Speed

Let's face it, the exciting news is that it will apparently run up 9.5 hours! That it fantastic. So if we divide the battery life in half, that's the very least we'll get if we were really cynical.

What's not to like? The 3.2 pounds of weight. Sorry, but I'm spoilt silly by netbooks that weight a lot less than that. This is heavy in my mind.

I like the way they've used the chiclet keyboard. I don't think it's better, but it looks good. Shame about the standard boring chasis. Not Asus's fault to be honest, they were the first out and other's have just trumped in design wise.