I left my Eee on standby overnight and in the morning the battery was almost empty! Is my battery faulty?
No. The standby mode of the Eee under both Linux and Windows consumes a significant amount of the battery’s power. It’s better to either shutdown and reboot each time (not a hassle bearing in mind the Eee boots very quickly), or use hibernation mode if you’re using Windows XP. This will involve the creation of a circa 500MB file on your hard disk, however. Note that it isn’t possible to move the hibernation file to removable storage. Hibernation (suspend to disk) isn’t possible under the Xandros Linux used on the Eee because it requires a swap file/partition, which isn’t present. Additionally, the Xandros kernel used on the Eee doesn’t have the suspend to disk feature. However, suspend to disk should work fine with other Linux distributions that support the feature, such as Ubuntu.
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