Anyone with an eeePC notice the crappyness of the battery meter?

[ownaginatious]

I got an eeePC for christmas and immediately installed XP because I wanted to play starcraft :p. Well anyway, has anyone noticed the battery meter being kind of crappy? It only seems to work in multiples of ten, never showing a percentage that ends in something besides zero. Also, sometimes when I recharge it, it gets stuck sometimes at whatever it was before I charged it (i.e. it has been stuck at "30%" since I recharged it last.

[Luke122]

yeah, the battery meter on mine is ridiculous also.

I found that the first time I charged it, it took around 9 hrs to get to 100%, and the life was about 3hrs, but since then, it's about 2hrs to full charge, and lasts nearly 4hrs.

Meter sucks, but turn the screen brightness down just a bit, and turn off the wifi whenever you can, and you'll get tons of life from it, even if the battery says it's almost dead.

[TheGreatSatan]

eeePC? WTF??

[Quakken]

eeepc


Edit- Those wiki refs are Sweet.