Paulthagerous: To be honest, when we are talking about 3 cell batteries, 5Whr's is a big difference. As battery life is one of the more important specs for many people (myself included), I would hope for at least the original's 28. Among my friends, a 23 will not quite last 2 lectures whereas a 28 will just (both running word + firefox on xp, all else very similar)
Good to know Paul. The ASUS claims impressive battery life but you're right that the more grunt the battery has the better. I'm in the other boat in that I'm not so worried about the battery as I expect to be using it mostly off the mains. That's why a removable battery would be preferrable to me as I don't expect to be using it very much. Only when I'm away on holiday, etc.
From what I can see, ASUS have supplied all their netbooks with a number of different battery specs over the life-cycle of each model. Maybe they have produced a more powerful 3-cell one for the 1005. Or maybe we might see a 6-cell be provided.
I guess it's all speculation until we see some damn specs from HN. They need to get an announcement out there with what they've asked ASUS to provide/build. It's not all that hard. The main areas of contention are going to be battery life, processor/graphics chips specs, and physical dimensions/weight of the unit. Other things like screen size, keyboard size, ports, camera/audio, hard drive seem to be pretty standard across all brands and models in this sector of the netbook market.
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