There are of course many factors when it comes to mobility, but battery life tends to be the Achilles heel for most devices. Today for the second time I left the NC10 unplugged inadvertently at my desk. I did not use it that much directly (more in ambient third screen mode) and only discovered it was unplugged at the end of the day when I went under my desk to pull the cord. Yesterday I actually did the same thing, but realized when the system refused to update the BIOS without a DC connection.
Now on the train home I see I’ve got about 35% or about 1:16 left to run at this current brightness (3 of 
and activity (Firefox, Tweetdeck, Windows Live Writer and iTunes) level. I only woke the system from sleep once after an extended away period in a meeting which is killer considering any other laptop I’ve used would absolutely have been dead by lunch.
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1 renantech // Jan 13, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Upgrading BIOS is mostly dangerous to your PC maybe it will be dead.
2 Jonathan // Jan 13, 2009 at 9:16 pm
all good here, but thanks for the warning
3 Monadi // Jan 14, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Thank you, finally somebody pointing out my biggest problem with mobility. I could care less if my portable can be as amazing as a nuclear reactor but only works for a minute.
4 Jonathan // Jan 14, 2009 at 10:14 pm
It's the main factor in actually enabling mobility. Either it works or it doesn't.
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