October 14, 2009 Net "Booklet" from Nokia
Another netbook from the nobility of mobility:
To enhance mobility, the device offers up to 12 hours of use on a single battery charge with Wi-Fi on, compared with most netbooks’ low- to mid-single-digit battery lives, said John Hwang, who headed up the Booklet’s design and development team. Nokia also pointed to the netbook’s silent-running fan-less operation, combined headphone/microphone jack, embedded 7.2Mbps high speed packet access (HSPA) cellular modem, seamless hand-off from Wi-Fi to 3G, aluminum chassis, light weight of 2.76 pounds and 0.78-inch thickness when closed. - from TWICE
It will be available exclusively at Best Buy (initially) and the $299 price is tied to an AT&T contract. It will come loaded with Windows 7.
Speaking of 7, I’m going to have to decide whether to upgrade from XP or not. This decidedly geeky, multi-page article suggests that 7 may not be a good idea for early netbooks and that 7 consumes battery life more voraciously than the venerable XP.
Frank@OBOW
Reader Comments (2)
I have been Windows 7 RC on an MSI Wind U100 for the past several months with no problem. Battery life (6 cell) has consistently been at 4-5 hours under normal use (Web surfing, watching an occasional video, email, word processing). I plan to install the "real" Win 7 when it is released in a few days. I have not watched a full movie, but have watched a streaming TV show (50-60 min). This MSI processor does get scaled back on battery power which likely has help battery life. I expect if I were to run the processor full out as it does when plugged in, battery life would drop some.
We're on the same boat. I still haven't decided if I will switch from windows XP to 7, I tried Vista though. But I found software compatibility problems with Vista so I switched back to XP. Software compatibility is also my concern if I switch to Windows 7.