[ILUG] Advice on laptop BIOS failure

[conor at discuskeeping.com]

Quoting "Philip Trickett (List)" <phil-ml at techworks.ie>:
> I'd be interested to see what sort of battery life you get, as I thought
> ~3 hours with this one was quite good! ;)
>
> So in contrast, I think you and I were coming from different
> requirements, you need portability, and I need screen real estate!

A collegue stole my monitor when I was out getting a puncture repaired 
today, so
messed up my test. However, it still estimates I have 1.38 hours battery left,
running from 8am (approx) using it for my lab access, and intarweb (ilug and
stuff).

As soon as I get the monitor back, I'll do a proper test.
In work, cpu utilisation tends to be very low.

My son tested it by watching episodes IV and V of starwars (DVD's) on the way
to, and back from Dundalk, think it had 45 minutes battery left.

> Phil

Conor.