battery life on X32s?

[JonathanGennick]

Does anyone recall the claimed battery life on the X32 series? I'm being tempted by an X32 on eBay, but I seem to recall that the battery life on the X32 was notably less than on the X31, and that gives me a bit of pause.

[asiafish]

When I had an X32 with main and extended batteries I got over 8 hours, about 5 hours for the main cell only.

That was screen at half-bright and wireless turned off.

My X32 was the 1.8GHz model with 2GB of RAM and a 7200RPM drive, no paging file.

[joprodse]

I have a X32 that's a year old and it's been used quite a lot on batterypower. I still get about 4-4,5 hours of batterylife out of it with screen dimmed to 50%, working with typical office tasks. W-LAN switched on. I guess I had aprox. 15-30min longer a year ago when it was brand new.