Advertised X60 Battery Life (was Re: [ltp] Re: Bad news for us)

[john]

6 hours is about what I get as well with the 8cell x60s.  Unfortunately
I still do not believe hibernate works out of the box with any distro
yet so you should keep this in mind.  


On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 12:34 -0400, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 18:17 +0200, Andreas Gredler wrote:
> > This is solved, at least on my X60s, where I had the same problems. I
> > used alsa from cvs. So I expect that this will be no problem anymore
> > in 2.6.17 
> 
> Off on a slight tangent.. I've been looking around for an ultra-light
> Thinkpad for quick on-the-road coding and writing, and the X41/X30
> series looked perfect, until I spied a review of the X60 which is
> reported to have the Intel CoreDuo chipset in it. 
> 
> The thing which caught my eye, was the mention that this laptop,
> _because_ of the CoreDuo, has an 8 hour battery life. 
> 
> Since you own one, can you confirm this for me? Is this accurate? 
> 
> 
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