10 Laptops with the Longest Battery Life
Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display
Apple provided several impressive hardware tweaks on the latest MacBook Pro. The most noticable is the 2880 x 1800-pixel Retina Display, which tallies up to more than 5 million pixels on a 15-inch panel.
What kind of battery can power a screen like that for 8 hours? Apple ditched the mechanical drive in older MacBook Pro's in favor of flash memory, then used the extra space to shoehorn in a larger 95-watt hour battery (up from 77.5-watt hours in the previous model). The result? A long-lasting system with enough juice to power the best 15-inch display we’ve ever seen for 8 hours and 2 minutes.
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April 14th, 2011 at 4:59 pm
I had the Samsung N110 and I loved the battery life. I could go from JFK airport to LAX including time in airport waiting for flight on one battery charge. During this last CES it was great to have I didn’t worry about the battery until end of day. It doesn’t take long to recharge from empty battery either. Only downfall is it got hot quickly and was kinda slow compared to other laptops on the market.
August 6th, 2011 at 8:05 am
Well battery life depends. If you have a monster 18.4″ with discrete graphics cards expectations are alot less. But with the new Sandy Bridge processors your getting then you ever had before.
December 14th, 2011 at 3:12 am
Dear Jake:
Where can I get a monster 18.4″ with discrete graphics cards with the new Sandy Bridge processors ?
And Hi-Life batteries for geological field work.
Thanks,
Jamshed
roameri@vsnl.com
August 16th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Jamshed: Your best bet would be a workstation from Lenovo or Dell.
August 25th, 2012 at 8:35 am
How about testing a 12.5″ HP 2570P with 100Whr 9-cell? It claims 9-15hrs battery life in it’s specs. A system with a socketted CPU (so can be user upgraded) and optical drive. A decent alternative to a 12.5″ Lenovo X230 which has a soldered CPU and no optical drive.
August 25th, 2012 at 10:57 am
@nando4,
Thanks. We’ll try to get one in.
October 12th, 2012 at 11:46 am
Good articles=))))
December 10th, 2012 at 11:44 pm
What settings did you used during the tests??
December 17th, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Given some laptops are tested with sheet batteries, why not test the Dell e6430 with its battery slice as well? Over 30 hours of runtime with its battery slice option
April 25th, 2013 at 5:02 pm
I think the FatBatt Fifty is a more accurate list. They update it too but I don’t know how often.