Samsung Q430-11 Reviewed: Great Performance, No Endurance

Battery life often tends to be a problem when it comes to mobile devices—a laptop might have great internal specs, but if you burn through the battery in a few hours, it makes the system much less useful.

Short endurance is a problem we ran into in our review of the Samsung Q430-11. We are fans of the notebook’s great performance—it sports a Core i5-450M 2.4-GHz CPU, a 14-inch display, 4GB DDR3 RAM and Nvidia GeForce 310M graphics, so it’s certainly no slouch for the price tag when it comes to gaming. Plus, the Q430-11′s brushed aluminum chassis earned equally high marks.

However, in spite of the Q430-11′s six-cell battery, we only managed to eke out 3 hours and 17 minutes of juice from the notebook. Compared to other similarly built notebooks, that’s not the most impressive score.

For more, check out our full review of the Samsung Q430-11.