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Windows 7 on an EeePC

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imported_wicka

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I'm considering replacing XP on my 1000HD with Windows 7, but I'm concerned the battery life will suffer from this. Does anyone have experience with Win7 on an EeePC? Right now I get something like 3-3.5 hours (I'll have to check in awhile to be sure).
 
I'm getting 7-9 hours with Windows 7 on my Eee PC 1000 HE.

EDIT: screen is set to lowest brightness, and wifi is always on. I had XP on it initially, and I haven't noticed any battery life differences--not that I really benchmarked for it either though.
 
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
I'm getting 7-9 hours with Windows 7 on my Eee PC 1000 HE.

EDIT: screen is set to lowest brightness, and wifi is always on. I had XP on it initially, and I haven't noticed any battery life differences--not that I really benchmarked for it either though.
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Does the Atom really get THAT much better battery life than the Celeron? That's amazing.
 
Originally posted by: wicka
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
I'm getting 7-9 hours with Windows 7 on my Eee PC 1000 HE.

EDIT: screen is set to lowest brightness, and wifi is always on. I had XP on it initially, and I haven't noticed any battery life differences--not that I really benchmarked for it either though.
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Does the Atom really get THAT much better battery life than the Celeron? That's amazing.
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They also have much smaller monitors than the typical laptop and often have a solid state hard drive to help save on power consumption. Usually no optical drive either.
 
Originally posted by: dguy6789
Originally posted by: wicka
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
I'm getting 7-9 hours with Windows 7 on my Eee PC 1000 HE.

EDIT: screen is set to lowest brightness, and wifi is always on. I had XP on it initially, and I haven't noticed any battery life differences--not that I really benchmarked for it either though.
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Does the Atom really get THAT much better battery life than the Celeron? That's amazing.
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They also have much smaller monitors than the typical laptop and often have a solid state hard drive to help save on power consumption. Usually no optical drive either.
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Mine has no optical drive and a standard hd (no SSD). It isn't all that powerful, but it's been absolutely perfect for school and carrying around for internet & doc work. The thing that surprised me most was the durability. I've had a stack of textbooks on it and I figured it would be dead. Not a thing wrong with it.
 
I have an EeePC, I know exactly what they are like. Mine has the same HDD and the same screen as Fullmetal and gets less than half the battery life.

By the way, how did you get Super Hybrid Engine working in Windows 7? I got it installed under XP compatibility mode but it won't actually run.
 
Mine has the 160GB drive and it's really quite unnecessary. I doubt I'd have any problem with just 12GB. Really the only reason that I like the big HDD is so I can have 2-3 different operating systems installed.
 
I've got a MSI Wind with the 6-cell battery; I can't get more than 3:30 out of the battery and I've gone through many discharge/recharge cycles. I.E. the battery is well broken-in. 😕

I love my netbook though.
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
I've got a MSI Wind with the 6-cell battery; I can't get more than 3:30 out of the battery and I've gone through many discharge/recharge cycles. I.E. the battery is well broken-in. 😕

I love my netbook though.
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That's weird. I have the same thing (U100, 6-Cell 4400 mAh battery). I can get at least 4 hours (almost 5, usually) out of the battery. This is with the lowest brightness and only Wi-Fi being on. Light web browsing, maybe a bit of word processing. (This was with Windows 7, which seems to be just as good on the battery, if not better, than XP...also, I always had aero on)

Do you have OS X installed, by chance? If so, that will definitely decrease your battery life. You may not, but if so, try this:

1) Upgrade to 10.5.7 (it really helps)
2) Buy Coolbook or install the VoodooPower kext (less stable, but works fine for me) to enable speedstepping in OS X (originally disabled, causing higher CPU power draw when unneeded)
 
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