From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 25 22:58:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92B41065670; Mon, 25 May 2009 22:58:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50AC18FC12; Mon, 25 May 2009 22:58:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) Received: from localhost.hawaii.res.rr.com ([98.150.187.245]) by hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090525222109572.HBFQ9828@hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com>; Mon, 25 May 2009 22:21:09 +0000 Received: from holstein.holy.cow (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.hawaii.res.rr.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCDFA32F1; Mon, 25 May 2009 12:22:14 -1000 (HST) Received: (from parv@localhost) by holstein.holy.cow (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n4PMMCNh003603; Mon, 25 May 2009 12:22:12 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) X-Authentication-Warning: holstein.holy.cow: parv set sender to parv@pair.com using -f Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 12:22:12 -1000 From: parv@pair.com To: Matthias Apitz Message-ID: <20090525222212.GA1445@holstein.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Matthias Apitz , Gabor Kovesdan , Wojciech Puchar , Sean Cavanaugh , Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <4A17FFAF.4010400@FreeBSD.org> <1243112254.1200.11.camel@RabbitsDen> <4A194F19.9070106@FreeBSD.org> <20090524135229.GA3410@current.Sisis.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20090524135229.GA3410@current.Sisis.de> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Sean Cavanaugh , Gabor Kovesdan , Wojciech Puchar , Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 22:58:41 -0000 in message <20090524135229.GA3410@current.Sisis.de>, wrote Matthias Apitz thusly... > > > Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko escribió: > > >I did not run FreeBSD on it, so I apologize for slight OT, but > > >my wife's Samsung NC10 (2.8 lbs, 10.2" screen, 160GB 5400RPM > > >HDD) is pushing 6 hours of the battery life with the wireless > > >on and memory upgraded to 2GB. This is under Windows XP HOME > > >ULCPC though. ... > I have a real netbook, an EeePC 900 with 20 GByte SSD, Wifi, > 1024x600 9" display and an attached USB Huawei E220 dongel for > UMTS. I have installed 8-CURRENT and all works as it should, only > the inbuild cam is not supported, but I don't neet this at the > moment (maybe later when Skype for FreeBSD can do video as well). Matthias, What kind of battery life do you get (with and without WIFI use)? - Parv --