Originally Posted by
stimpy
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.
Wait, there are two batteries smaller than the 8 cell. I'm talking about the ULTRA small one, the one with no bumps on the bottom and is totally flush. That's the one that lasts for ~2 hours. There's a slightly larger battery that doesn't stick out from the back, but has 2 bumps on the bottom. I've never used that one.