John,
I run linux with a lucent 11 meg wireless card on my dell latitude and I get a good 4
hours on the battery, i can even buy another battery and double that but haven't felt
the need.
if you like apple you might want to look at an ibook, my coworkers swear they get 6
hours on a charge, although I don't think they run linux.
-j
--- John Abreau wrote:
I'm running Linux on a Sony Vaio C1X with a Novatel Wireless Merlin
cdpd modem, and I love everything about this machine except one thing:
the battery life really sucks. It came with a "3-hour" battery which
lasts just about an hour, so I it the bullet and bought the "6-hour"
battery, which lasts about two hours.
I find this frustrating enough that I'm almost considering replacing it,
if I can find something with a reasonably long battery life. What kinds
of battery life do you find on your laptops? What's the longest actual
battery life you've seen in a laptop?
Thanks.
--
John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / URL: http://www.blu.org
ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj
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