Re: [Hampshire] The greatest laptop ever made? (The SUN)

Andy Random wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Jim Kissel wrote:
>
>> From the eeeForum imabuddha writes:
>> "Last night when I put my eee into suspend by closing the lid it had
>> nearly 100% power. Nine hours later I when I woke it up it still
>> showed 60%, and I used it for over an hour with full brightness, wifi,
>> etc., and still had about 20%.
>>
>> It seems my eee is only using ~5%/hour in suspend. I only have the
>> stock 512MB ram, and I wonder if those with 1 or 2MB ram are seeing
>> the higher suspend power usage."
>> http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=3282
>
> That sounds like it roughly matches what I've seen.
>
>> From my tests I've found that 12 hours in suspend uses around 50-60% of
> the battery charge. Which again seems power hungry to me, my Thinpad can
> spend 48 hours suspended and still have enough power to boot back up and
> be usable for at least 10-15 minutes.
>
> However it's mostly a moot point for me as the fact the Eee crashes on
> suspend fairly regularly means I try to avoid using it unless I really
> need to because I just can't trust it.

You mentioned this before and your701 came from Overclockers. Which OS
are you running?