Laptops with the Longest Battery Life? 751
Yi Ding asks: "Recently, I have been investigating laptops for clients, and the majority of the complaints about current laptops is battery life. Most laptops just don't have enough juice to even finish a single DVD or write an article for 4-5 hours in an internet cafe. Of course, one can lug around extra battery packs, but it's a pain and often defeats the purpose of having a laptop in the first place, portability. What have your experiences with battery life been and where can I find the longest lasting, reasonably robust, laptop?"
The ones with the longest life (Score:5, Funny)
I've often found... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The ones with the longest life (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Plug it in, Plug it in! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Toshiba Satellite (Score:5, Funny)
Comes with a lot of games [google.com] too!
Re:My experience (Score:5, Funny)
But that involves breaking the cardinal rule of geekdom - i.e. never speak to anyone if at all possible. Gruff barking/grunting should be about the tops for a general social encounter such as that.
Re:The most beautiful 12" Powerbook is the BEST (Score:2, Funny)
No comment.
I find that I get the best battery life when I have a cord secretly running into some nearby outlet. When an employee goes, "Hey! You can't leech our power!" then I just get the hell out, really damn quick.
-os
Lame (Score:5, Funny)
One nice thing is that nowadays this approach is quite interoperable with PCs and Macs. Tools to convert to the 3M format have been available for decades and now tools to convert from 3M to a digital format are almost as ubiquitous. On the down side there are some claims that the 3M approach can harm the environment, after all, it does grow on trees. On the other hand a high proportion of discarded equipment can be recovered and processed for reuse.
Re:The most beautiful 12" Powerbook is the BEST (Score:5, Funny)
Re:iBook running Gentoo with 2.6.7 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:15" iBook (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Toshiba Satellite (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Apple iBook G4 (Score:4, Funny)
And if you say anything about "just use an external mouse", that doesn't work when you're actually using it as a laptop, and it's inconvenient as hell. If I wanted a portable desktop, I'd get one. But I don't, I want a laptop computer that is entirely self-contained.
It goes down anyways (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Toshiba Satellite (Score:2, Funny)
The slight disadvantage is that it has to be launched into geo-stationary orbit by rocket first, can only be accessed via wireless communications. Cost me $4,000,000, but I can watch 4000 video channels and have 10,000 international telephone conversations simultaneously.
Re:Toshiba Satellite (Score:5, Funny)
I've yet to find anyone who can decode what I have written.
Sometimes not even me.
Re:Toshiba Satellite (Score:3, Funny)
I know that one. It's called CAFFEINE. Works for people too!