Battery life estimated between 5-8 hours (according to Asus)
Unsure of 'reality' yet. 1.5 hours on the train this morning left me with 70% (playing oolite for half an hour). So perhaps 5 with 'heavy-ish' usage.
I'll be good and use just Word on the way home to see what that looks like.
Cost... ahem. Not cheap. A bit of style over substance here. Retails for just over £800. Got mine for just under this due to some wacky amazon vouchers my wife had online. You can probably get cheaper and faster elsewhere, but I wanted light weight and a bit of bling given I hope it will last another decade..
It's quality though; very very nicely put together.
Spec is
i5 2.53 Ghz
4 GB Ram
500 GB HD
Nvidia Geforce N310M on demand
1366x768 (widescreen)
Windows 7 Home Premium
Runs current Oolite 1.75.1 like a dream. 99 FPS, full shaders. CPU only registers at 35% - no OXPs yet though!!
Cheese is right on the spec. Screen size is the only difference (note no resolution difference, just bigger). I went for the smaller one for portability. Internal spec is the same.
It's not a gaming rig, but it's got enough 3d power to hold its own. I'm very pleased with it so far.
Click Oolite icon to spinning cobra is just over 5 seconds.
Cheers,
Drew.