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["Prof. John C Nash" <nashjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a UL30A2 and have been seeing about 10 hours on a charge, not trying anything
special, so 2 is very low. I usually pump up the brightness and have wifi on, and I switch
on and off. I don't use suspend but switch off. For info, running Karmic.

Did the supplier put in a different battery?

JN

ben van 't ende wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> 
> I just want to let you know me and my Asus are around as well ;-) I am basically
> very happy with the machine running on Lucid Lynx. The reason I bought the Asus
> is because of it's design and because of the promise of a long battery life. At
> the moment I think I do not even manage 2 hours. I have an eeepc 1005 as well,
> which performs absolutely beautiful with Lucid Lynx. That might also be due to
> the eeepc utilities. Only half of my finction keys are working unfortunately. I
> don't consider that a huge problem though.
> 
> I have noticed that some work is being done to let these hybrid machines work
> with Linux. I would like to imagine the situation will have largely improved in
> half a year or a year and that we have these things functioning properly with
> Ubuntu or Linux for that matter. What do you think?
> 
> gRTz
> 
> ben
> 
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