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Lenovo ThinkPad W550s: Heavy, But a Battery That Lasts Nearly All Day
MojoKid writes: Mobile workstation notebooks typically offer a fair degree of performance but usually at the expense of battery life. It comes with the territory for machines that are configured with higher-end processors with discrete graphics chips, as well as high-end displays that take more power to light up. Lenovo, however, seems to have found a way to strike a better balance with their new ThinkPad W550s, which comes equipped with an Intel Core i7-5600U CPU, an NVIDIA Quadro K620M GPU, and a 15.5 inch IPS display that sports 2880X1620 native resolution. With that kind of horsepower and that many pixels to push, you would think untethered up-time wouldn't be its strong suit but Lenovo configured a snap-in extended battery for the W550s. The 6-cell extended battery, in combination with its 3-cell internal battery, was able to power the machine for over 18 hours of light-duty web browsing in real-world testing (Lenovo claims up to 20 hrs of battery life). The machine also lasted over five hours under heavy-load Battery Eater testing, and the extended battery is unobtrusive, tilting the keyboard up slightly toward the user but keeping well inside the machine's footprint.
So..my Mac is light and the battery lasts all day.
But does your Mac have NVIDIA Quadro graphics? This is a workstation replacement laptop, not designed for just average use.
It also has a vastly superior pointing device (trackpoint rather than only a touchpad) and keyboard (lenovo rather than jello) when compared to your Mac.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
My mbp has 9 hrs battery , retina 15" display, discrete graphics chip, pcie flash storage and multitouch trackpad which is way better than ur little nub.
Mbps get 9 hours battery life. You can get infinite hours of life using an external battery, so it's not a good measure. With flash storage it blows this away.
Whats odd is this model is a downgrade over the refreshed W541. Unless you really need a Broadwell CPU, the W541 offers Thunderbolt, Expresscard, and double the memory capacity of the W550s. Heck, the optional battery for the W541 is higher capacity (99WHr) than the one for the W550s (72WHr).
It would be nice if someone had converted that to metric.
~ 2.5kg.