Laptops with the Longest Battery Life?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday August 3, 2004 @10:25AM from the built-to-last dept.

Yi Ding asks: "Recently, I have been investigating laptops for clients, and the majority of the complaints about current laptops is battery life. Most laptops just don't have enough juice to even finish a single DVD or write an article for 4-5 hours in an internet cafe. Of course, one can lug around extra battery packs, but it's a pain and often defeats the purpose of having a laptop in the first place, portability. What have your experiences with battery life been and where can I find the longest lasting, reasonably robust, laptop?"

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Re:IBM X40 by jrockway · 2004-08-03 17:21 · Score: 0, Redundant

> My IBM X40 (it's a Pentium M, 1GHz) runs 7 hours on a charge of the 8-cell battery.

Damn that's nice. I have to admit that I'm pretty happy with the four hours (or so) of my Powerbook. That's with WiFi, and the backlit keyboard. But the IBM sounds niiiice too :)

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