Comments on: Eee PC 900 battery life tests. Thoughts on Atom.

By: DavidC1

DavidC1 — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:03:53 +0000

Actually, the Celeron M used in the EEE PCs are 7W TDP variants. There’s inherent power savings features in all the Silverthorne-derived CPUs that isn’t turned off that’s not existant in the Celeron M.

I am sure that the differences will be bigger, but hmm, 1 hour for the EEE is pretty disappointing.

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By: PJE

PJE — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:33:09 +0000

Those numbers are seem almost generated by a random number generator. There seems to be no rule (that I can see) for how bad the 900 is running compared to the 700.

The only thing I can think is causing the differences is the 900 is running at 900MHz while the 700 is running at 630… On applications when can use the CPU the battery will be drained quickly, but on applications which can use hardware video acceleration (XVID) the CPU is idling and therefore the times are closer.

Unless I can get 3+ Hours of use with WiFi on I’ll wait for the next iteration.