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Laptops with the Longest Battery Life?
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?"
Agreed. I have an iBook and a Powerbook, and they both burn through batteries at much faster rates than anything Apple promises, even with everything tweaked for optimal power consumption. Anyone claiming to get five hours from an Apple laptop is a liar, anyone claiming more than five is a bad liar.