The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
In other words, if you have the computer in a state where
you can barely read the monitor, you're not online (this is a netbook I
thought) and you can't do anything useful, you may get 9.5 hours of
battery life.
In actual fact, when I charged the battery up
full and checked after booting up, going online and then disconnecting
the power, the battery monitor informed me that under present
conditions, the battery had 6 hours 45 minutes of charge left. Three
hours later, after leaving the 1000HE running doing little more than
having a couple of browser windows open, it's down to 3 hours and 50%
remaining.
My feeling is that if you doing some real work on the 1000HE while on
the road, you might get about 5 hours out of a charge. I'm not sure
what watching movies stored on your hard disk while on plane would do
to the battery storage but I suspect about two movies might be the
limit.
That said, the storage of the 1000HE is way beyond what the 1000HD
provides. My machine's battery tells me it's full when I have a nominal
3.5 hours of life off mains power. In reality, I'm lucky if I can get
two hours of doing real work using just the battery. If I could get a
guaranteed four or five hours from my battery pack, I would be stoked
(do they still say that?).
So in essence, the 1000HE is a lovely netbook - significantly better
than the 1000HD in many respects. Is it worth the extra AUD$400 that it
costs?
Better keyboard, better display, bigger hard drive, much better battery
life and potentially more powerful processor. If those things are
important to you, then the answer is probably yes.
However, we are going through a pretty bad economic downturn, so I'm
happy to hold on to my 1000HD for as long as it lasts - and that may
well be the case for many others.
David Bass
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