£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

genius.

[Brian Gordon]

unlimited battery life.. just keep downloading BIOS updates to add half hours to your battery life..

MiyEee PC runs just fine

[wildem]

I've no business attachment with Asus, but I have to say I couldn't be happier about the battery life of my Eee PC. Just today, I was using it for more than 3 hours for surfing the net, mplayer music playback, and occasional web video. I still had 30% juice left according to Ubuntu's battery state widget.

Re:Oh, 10 pounds sterling, not 10 lbs!

[Stormwatch]

Oh, you gringos and your funny non-metric measurement systems...