Battery design is a great deal better. On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:40 PM, keith smith wrote: > I did not notice any mention of battery life. I've had a couple of laptops > and the battery was the weak link. Seem to recall the battery dieing within > a year or a year and a half. Have the batteries gotten any better? > > ------------------------ > Keith Smith > > --- On *Tue, 6/8/10, Stephen * wrote: > > > From: Stephen > Subject: Re: Replacement computer options/ideas? > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 9:11 AM > > The acer revo is about 300-350 at new egg with a Dual core Atom and > 2gb of ram, it runs Ubuntu like a champ and has built in wireless low > heat and low power even comes with the Nvidia ION chipset/gpu. and > comes with a mount to attach it to the back of your monitor to the > VESA mounting holes (comes with a cheap little wireless keyboard/mouse > with dongle) but they are decent little machines and very zippy (even > running Win7 or ubuntu) > > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen