Originally Posted by
jgsx
No way on the battery. I have several slims and several 8 cells. I do NOT turn the brighness down on my laptops. I get 2 hours on the slims on both the x60s and x61s.
That's weird. You must have something else draining your batteries. Again I got 4 hours for the first year with my slim battery and I too kept the brightness high.
As for USB, I'm often charging and uploading/downloading/hacking to my iPhone as well as other GSM phones of family members. And I have a 250GB USB drive, and sharing files with USB keys, and occasionally using a USB DVD/CD player and various digital cameras. There are many times when I was using all 3 USB ports on my x61s and still now with the X300.
Of course the other great difference with both the X300 and the Air is the SSD. The performance for me has been significantly better.