longest battery life

[Reista]

Which laptop has the longest battery life of ever? im just looking for pretty much the net and word processing to run for a while so longevity is all i want *and hopefully its not w2k -.-*

[Reista]

>.< cant edit it anymore... i found a laptop with a battery life of 21 hours (after about an hour or so searching google) which will do the job quite well for me =]

[Alaron]

That is way more then any laptop I've seen lately. Post a link.

[Reista]

its an old one =p http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/17/battery.idg/ the latter version they say had 21 hours

[EzyStvy]

Have fun

Its debut product, the $499 PowerPad 160, is a rectangular, 3/8-inch-thick battery that sits underneath a laptop and connects to the AC adapter jack.


ps. Food for thought-> Purchase a second or third battery that matches the original one...

[ztx]

A modern notebook would be something like the Lenovo Thinkpad X61s, I can get roughly ~9 hours, with a 8-cell battery.

[thefultonhow]

The new Dell Latitude E6x00 series are supposedly rated at 19 hours with a 9-cell battery, but I'll believe it when I see it. I agree that if you want good battery life, just get a couple batteries. If you don't want to turn off the computer while you swap them out, get a laptop with a modular bay and put a battery designed for the bay in there to keep the computer running while you swap.

BTW, what's wrong with Windows 2000? The only things it's missing compared to XP are a couple of updated programs, Windows Firewall, and a fancy blue taskbar...