10 Laptops with the Longest Battery Life
Apple MacBook Air 13-inch
The Apple MacBook Air 13-inch is an all-star ultraportable that combines an incredibly thin design with swift boot times and yes, truly stellar battery life (11:40). It's Intel Haswell ULT Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM and 128GB SSD are the engines that drive this iconic workhorse, and those who put down for one will be able to work and play while keeping the charger at bay for nearly half a day.
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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.
May 31st, 2013 at 7:25 pm
I have a Gateway 18″ display. I know it will run for about 4 1/2 hours on a single charge. I haven’t tried it much longer.
My criteria was large screen and at least 3 GB of memory. Hard drive size didn’t matter a lot because I don’t store a lot of games or many large programs on it. My largest game is Microsoft Flight Simulator and I have an older version of Word and Excel. I don’t upgrade unless there’s absolutely no way to get around it. By the way, my old laptop died after about 11 years I had to get a new one. My biggest criteria was the ability for wireless connections for my wife and I. We use Comcast and have had no problems with our computers AFTER they came out and buried our phone lines.
June 12th, 2013 at 10:15 pm
The best experience I have had is with samsung NC215 notebook.
It runs for about 8 hours when fully charged