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[AdvMutant]

Hey all.

I recently discovered that the battery life Asus promised me is far from the real thing. They said it's up to 10 hours, while I only have 6. It draws me crazy.
I use my computer for three things - reading, programming and browsing the web. I have a creative solution - DOS. It doesn't use too many resources, and with Win3.1 installed it can do all I need. Linux can too, with a basic windowing system but I like Win3.1 so it has to be similar. I tried installing MS-DOS, PC-DOS and FreeDOS and had errors with all of them. I think the best solution is booting Linux in CLI mode and running DOSbox or something.

I'm trying to get myself a basic low-performance system with high battery life, that can browse the web, read books[I prefer pdfs] and program. If I'll be able to emulate networking with Win3.1, it's perfect.

But will the battery life really be better? If it won't then the whole effort is for nothing. I'm using the Asus EeePC 1015PEM. The full specs are in the link.

Thanks all, Mike.

[Alexander]

A CLI based Linux with a PDF to Postscript converter for viewing (or anyformat, whatever your poison) will get you the maximum battery life, along with lowest possible brightness and low thresholds to turn off the screen when idle, but that will ruin the experience somewhat to get 10 hours.

Win 3.11 only supports dialup IIRC, and dosbox is an emulator so it naturally uses up cpu cycles, so those are not really options.

[wim DC]

I can't think of any moment where i would be out of reach of a power plug for >5hrs...

Edited by wim DC, 19 January 2011 - 02:31 PM.

[AdvMutant]

Thanks. I'll try doing it right after I'll finish setting up Gentoo.

[DEViANT]

AdvMutant said:

after I'll finish setting up Gentoo.

Thats gonna take a while :c-whistle:

[AdvMutant]

lol it will... I'm kinda stuck now because "emerge --sync" fails.

[mebob]

I hope you don't have an ATI graphics card, I gave up installing Gentoo because I couldn't get it to work with it correctly. And using genkernel eliminates the point of Gentoo.

[AdvMutant]

I'm using Intel GMA.