TONY Please tell me how you get on with the 13hr battery life. The laptop we have at home goes by 8hrs but only if the ASUS resource saving mode is on. I seem to recall that things like video watching where affected in this mode.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tony Pursell <a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:38:21 +0100 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] asus ubuntu On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 18:37 +0100, alan c wrote: > On 05/06/11 18:33, Andres wrote: > > Not that I like W7 but it is quite quick to boot up i timed 30-45 > > seconds on some laptops when it came out in john lewis. The > > problem (imho) is that you'll need antivirus. Even if it's the free > > windows essentials one it still slows down. > > Even if W7 was faster than Ubuntu, I would still have a lot of reasons > to want to avoid it. > You can all relax, I am now dual booting Ubuntu 11.04 on my Eee PC 1015PEM, with Ubuntu as the default. I cannot see myself booting into W7 very often - don't really know why I kept it. Tony -- Andrés Muñiz-Piniella -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
