[TriLUG] Advice on an ultra-light notebook

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Andrew Perrin wrote:

> It's getting to be time to replace my laptop, which is currently a Sharp
> Actius PC-MM10. I like it a lot - particularly its extremely light weight
> and ease of carrying. However, battery life is poor.

Is this a function of linux? Linux doesn't have access to 
the NDA features of many devices and will get about 50-75% 
the battery time of the same machine on Windows

Joe

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