[jyl]

John, how is your battery life on your Netbook, now that you have a SSD drive? My Acer ran over 6 hours and still had 39% battery life. It was running a TIVO like program, screen on the entire time and had WIFI operating the whole time. I was pretty amazed. I haven't upgraded the screen, but I am adding the mini-PCIE video decoder, to improve watching of movvies.

Mine is not so good, because HP runs the fan all the time regardless of windows power mgmt settings. You can lower max processor state to 5% and stick the netbook in the refrigerator, and the fan still runs constantly. And they disabled (hid) the bios setting to control fan. Irritating!

Thing is, my netbook has the six-cell battery, which alone is as heavy/big as an entire tablet - I haven't compared mAH of the netbook's battery to, say, an iPad's battery, but I think the netbook still has a power budget too high for a competitive tablet.

Ya know.. . . a whole lot of things in this world (and out of this world) were accomplished by men with their sliderules. (in and out of their pocket protectors) ....The GoldenGate bridge, Hoover Dam . . . the moon landing.

Yet how many people (back then) ever figured out how to use such a powerful tool?

But how many sliderule makers became big and very profitable? It was a powerful tool for a very limited market. Same niche the Windows tablets are in danger of falling into (have already fallen into).