Comments on: NC10 battery life.

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:44:32 +0000

I have a Samsung NC10, what settings do you use to get below 5W of battery drain? Even if I turn BT off, Wifi off, screen brightness at minimum and shut down all major processes in Windows I still only get down to 6.5W, I can not get it below 5W. How do you do it?

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Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:24:58 +0000

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By: ProDigit

ProDigit — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:34:01 +0000

There’s actually a command you can use on the EeePc to improve brightness, since standard brightness goes from something like 20%-65%.
(in root type:
setpci -s 00:02.1 f4.b=FF
Where FF stands for the value of the brightness.
don’t go lower than 05 on the EeePc, since then your backlit screen is gone.)

If you set your eeePc to 100% brightness you only get about 65% of it’s real brightness.
On the full 100% brightness, the EeePc hurts your eyes. It’s like a flashlight at night.

Can anyone test if this code works on a linux (Ubuntu, Xandros, Mandriva) version on the N10?

By: anon

anon — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:34:07 +0000

Thanks, it appeared on the second try. Seeing a 7 – 7.2 W minimum drain on a 900A with wireless. (6.5 with wireless off) Now – how to reach those 901 figures…

By: Chippy

Chippy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:45:59 +0000

I’ve played with many devices and this one clearly has best-in-class motherboard and screen drain. Even if you drop the screen brightness on many other devices, you won’t see this level of efficiency. At 2W (or more) advantage at this level translates to real advantages in normal use.

Steve

By: Chippy

Chippy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:43:08 +0000

Sometimes you have to try and add the counter twice before it appears in the list

Steve

By: Aden Davies

Aden Davies — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:06:21 +0000

Did I mention I can not wait to get my hands on this? http://bit.ly/rcIN come along now Mr Postman…

By: Brentan

Brentan — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:35:52 +0000

it’s not magic, go play with 1. the screen is dimmer than it’s competitors at the same brightness level.

thats why when you turn up the brightness to 100% in the Samsung it gets under 5 hours.

By: Futurize Korea

Futurize Korea — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:17:18 +0000

Make sure you aren’t plugged in and you should see the Battery object appear with a battery drain option.

By: scoobie

scoobie — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:23:44 +0000

And don’t forget I hope we can expect a new Q2 UMPC from Samsung at CEBIT

By: Sascha

Sascha — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:53:42 +0000

Steve it was just all day computing. I switched it on when we got over to the meeting, then some 3 hours of live streaming (using the NC10) and getting back in the late evening with still enough juice to play some games on the train back home.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:34:06 +0000

What is that power consumption counter called in Perfmon and under what performance object is it? I can’t find it!

By: tal

tal — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:34:19 +0000

To say that a Netbook is “just a laptop” is blasphemy
Now seriously it just a matter of what you call mobility. The fact that you look at UMPCs and MIDs as the only forms with mobility “kick” is just because of your mobility expectations.
I for now get my “kick” from being able to carry the device all around with comfort (sub 1.3kg is good). UMPCs are a rare breed, and are pro users only. I really doubt how long they are going to stay around. MIDs are soon to be Smartphones.
There is mobility of computing (via Netbooks) and mobility of connection (via Smartphones/MIDs). Both are great and different and once mixed make less sense.

I want to also whole heatedly agree with ‘Pops’ –> the fact that for a 8.9″ swivel touch screen Netbook under 1k$ we have only Gigabyte ATM is annoying. I wonder when Acer or Asus will add these 2 features as well.

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Dell Inspiron Mini 9 and the ASUS N10 reviewed — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:25:27 +0000

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