£10 Battery Upgrade For UK Eee PC 900 Owners

Ken E. writes "Asus has backed down in the face of complaints from UK Eee PC 900 owners about the ultra-portable's low-capacity battery. Confusing statements posted in online reviews led buyers to believe that they would get a larger capacity battery than they actually did — and they weren't happy. Asus has, however, made a conciliatory gesture by extending a £10 high-capacity battery upgrade offer. Mobile Computer has the full announcement, plus quite a bit of background on how this fuss all got started. The batteries will be available June 10 and in the meantime Eee PC owners can download a BIOS update that Asus claims will add half an hour to battery life."

Comments

Re:MiyEee PC runs just fine

[Anonymous Coward]

I've no business attachment with Asus Do you realize that it's legal (and common) for people with business attachments (astroturfers) to say that?

but I have to say no you don't - trust me you really don't

I couldn't be happier about the battery life of my Eee PC. Are you saying even if it lasted an hour longer you wouldn't be happier? If that's true you are probably on the Asus marketing team and no one should listen to you. If it's not true you don't seem to understand your language and no one should listen to you.

Have a nice day.

Let me guess...

[Tastecicles]

...by clocking the processor back even further? IIRC the EeePC already utilizes only 70% of the clock potential of the chip as it is (700MHz rather than the factory clock for the processor of 1000MHz). Thanks, I'll stick with my touchscreen-equipped, does-everything-an-UMPC-like-the-Eee-but-faster can do, Panasonic CF-M34. Oh, did I tell you it's waterproof, shockproof and crush resistant, too?