Comments on: What laptop has the best battery life? http://www.askageek.com/2009/01/28/what-laptop-has-the-best-battery-life/ Where Geeks Answer Your Computer and Tech Questions! Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:41:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: gary659 http://www.askageek.com/2009/01/28/what-laptop-has-the-best-battery-life/comment-page-1/#comment-8177 gary659 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:37:44 +0000 http://www.askageek.com/?p=1607#comment-8177 Thanks for the info I will try those things. Thanks for the info I will try those things.

]]> By: Mark http://www.askageek.com/2009/01/28/what-laptop-has-the-best-battery-life/comment-page-1/#comment-8174 Mark Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:10:10 +0000 http://www.askageek.com/?p=1607#comment-8174 Battery life is one of the most important selling points for new laptops. There is no special buzz word you should look for on the system specs. Your best bet is to just look for the manufacturer's claimed max battery life, and google around for some reviews for that model to see if it lives up to the hype. Dell's Latitude E Series claims a max battery life of 19 hours: http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/latit?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz Lenovo's X200s series claims around 12 hours: http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087&current-category-id=135A781CA29B4ECB9ADAD8E72CF6FD61 You also might be interested in these tops for how to extend your laptop's battery life: http://www.friedbeef.com/top-15-ways-to-extend-your-laptop-battery-life/ A Tip #16 for you is to try to use your laptop's wifi sparingly, turn it off when you're not using it and try to be as close to the wireless access point as you can when you do use it. Running the wireless transmitter in your laptop can use a lot of juice, and when the access point is far away, the laptop needs to use more energy to transmit the signal that far distance. Battery life is one of the most important selling points for new laptops. There is no special buzz word you should look for on the system specs.

Your best bet is to just look for the manufacturer’s claimed max battery life, and google around for some reviews for that model to see if it lives up to the hype.

Dell’s Latitude E Series claims a max battery life of 19 hours: http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/latit?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz

Lenovo’s X200s series claims around 12 hours: http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087&current-category-id=135A781CA29B4ECB9ADAD8E72CF6FD61

You also might be interested in these tops for how to extend your laptop’s battery life: http://www.friedbeef.com/top-15-ways-to-extend-your-laptop-battery-life/

A Tip #16 for you is to try to use your laptop’s wifi sparingly, turn it off when you’re not using it and try to be as close to the wireless access point as you can when you do use it. Running the wireless transmitter in your laptop can use a lot of juice, and when the access point is far away, the laptop needs to use more energy to transmit the signal that far distance.

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