isnt that what nits are (i have no clue)?

oh ya guys, take your time measuring battery life tests. theres no need to hurry as we all know that you actually live through it the entire amount of time. you cant just guesstimate what the times “would be” based on partial run down tests like other industies can with their products.

although i do agree that it will still probably turn out to be the best 10″ netbook yet because of the keyboard alone, even if it gets the typical 5-6hr mark.

the design is fugly by the way. the way the body tries to be slim but the ports buldge out & the horrible silver strip down the side.

**on a side note something i really hate. why do ALL of these review sites always use scenario’s like “we used 50% brightness”? dont they know that 1 machines 50% is not the same as anothers 50%? they could still have completely different brightness & power consumption levels. there really needs to be some sort of scientific brightness level measurement tool. then all machines could be at the same brightness level (whether it be 3 bars, 7 bars, etc) & then test battery life.

To confirm the results, we’re going to run the test at 50% brightness again and report back.

Typically, we run our battery test at 40% brightness, but in XP you can’t usually set an exact percentage, unless there are 10 green bars on the brightness menu and you lower the brightness to number four. Our NC10 has only 8 brightness levels so we went with number four.

As an aside, we are looking to make our battery test downloadable so anyone can use it to verify our results on any notebook we’ve tested or to conduct new tests of their own. We just need to get certain permissions, because we want to distribute all the elements in one easy-to-install package.