Pretty Shocking Netbook Battery Life Comparison
An article on Netbook Review compares the battery life of numerous popular netbooks, e.g. the Asus Eee, MSI Wind, Dell Mini (Inspiron 9 and 12).
What I found quite impressive was the long battery life of the MSI Wind (almost 7 hours!). On the other hand Dell’s mini laptops proved to be a great disappointment, with the Mini 9 somewhere in the middle and the 12 inch model completely on the bottom of the list (though let us not forget that the big screen is also a factor).
This test was conducted using a benchmark program the author of the article developed. Also, looks like the biggest factor in battery life is the number of cells, I quote:
“This obviously isn’t an exhaustive test but it does show that six-cell battery netbooks should last well over three hours while those with three-cell batteries will struggle, on average, to deliver better than two hours.”
You can find lots of detailed information about this comparison, along with the list in the original article.
I’d also like to hear from netbook owners: how long does your netbook battery last?
Looks like MSI has the longest battery life.
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Although I do not currently own a netbook, I do know what I would like to have as far as specifications are concerned and long battery life is at the top of my list. To me, the definition of a netbook is a compact laptop with long battery life and it would seem that manufacturers are slowly yet surely decreasing battery life in order to put large hard-drives and faster processors into their so called netbooks, hoping that they will be powerful enough to run Windows 7 when Windows XP is finally retired.
Personally, I’d prefer an ARM machine with a solid state drive running Linux. Now that would be a power saver.
Noting that, one should also point out that quite a lot of rebranded Winds were made. I noticed the German Aldi chain selling rebranded Wind models.
We have some Winds in school. Pretty sleek-looking.
so… are you going to actually post some sort of quantitative data or should i just take your [biased] opinion ?
also, if you could give me the 30 seconds of my life you just wasted with this article, id appreciate it.
thanks
miles ur full of shit
This article is a waste of everybody’s time!
This comes on top in google search and has no objective information!