the battery got a little old, so it was time to replace it....and hey, when already getting a new battery why not one with more than 3 times of the capacity (6600 mAh instead of 1800 mAh) of the original one? ok, it almost doubles the weight of the netbook itself, but the big battery pack also acts as stand so the netbook is not flat on the table anymore...much more comfy to type that way.
it should have a runtime of between 6 and 12 hours now, depending on the system load.
next on the list was the RAM. I replaced the original 1 GB CL 6 with a 2 GB CL 5 one. my Debian install is pretty lightweight with xfce dekstop environment, so the amount of RAM was actually never a problem, but why not upgrading to the max., and the decreased cache latency is noticeable in the performance.
already a little ago I did a disk wipe with DoD algorithms and installed Debian in an encrypted LVM environment:
but I might have to do another install again soon, because I am thinking about getting a SSD HDD....
