On 14 Nov 2005, at 13:29, Stephane Deschamps wrote: >> Well, the ones in my IBM[1] X31 are 2 years old and still give me > 5 >> hours useful life, so can't complain. > > 5?? > > And me who thought 2.5 was quite nice when you want to watch a DVD > on a > train. > > Five? FIVE!! To be fair, that is 2 batteries from full charge, and using all the powersaving functions (dim screen & slow CPU speed, no optical drives connected, low HDD usage with 3 min shutdown). Still, 5hrs is still an average - I *have* got over 7... Kinda useful for taking notes in all day client meetings. Cheers Martin -- > Spammers: Send me email -> yumyum at easyweb.co.uk to train my filter > http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/ Sell Cloth Nappies from your website: http://www.purpur.co.uk/announcing-purpur-associates