since my new 8800 mAh battery arrived (from eBay) for my EeePC 1000H, I had to stress test it after a night long charging.

I started web browsing (with wifi and bluetooth) enabled but after one hour I got bored and fired up VLC to watch a DVD - obviously from  the hard disk, since the EeePC doe not have a built in DVD drive.

the movie, IronMan, is over 2 hrs long, so I could expect some serious battery charge drop, watching it with medium brightness.

well… after the movie finished (a good one, btw, 8,1/10 on IMDB.com) the uptime was a bit more than 3 hrs, and according to the indicator there was still around two hours left… nice…

usually watching a movie consumes the battery much better than casual surfing, so I was happy.

after all I got round 5 hours from the new 8800 mAh battery on the 1000H, which is one hour better than the stock EeePC 6600 battery. taking into account that it was the first charge and watching a film is not really a casual using pattern, I would expect around 5-5.5 hrs with surfing and wordprocessing (and wifi on).

UPDATE (06 October 2008): After the second charge I got 5 hrs and 20 minutes…