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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?"
Portability is good, but that's the ONLY advantage in a laptop. You can't play games as well, the battery sucks, it's expensive. Tablet PCs are just the same. The cons far outweight the pros.
they look pretty and all the girls in the coffee shops come up to you!
Yeah right, last time I tried only fags where running after me. Better stick to that IBM.
You are the battery for your laptop ...
Speaking from experience.
Yet another MacLiar. What is wrong with you people that you have to bullshit so much about your computers? If you just relaxed a little people wouldn't tease you so much!
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.