Apple MacBook Pro
A laptop lineup that runs all day
Apple MacBook Pro
Dan Saelinger
Work (or play) for eight hours straight without stopping to recharge your computer’s battery. MacBook Pros carry a workday’s worth of power, compared with just five hours for similarly sized Windows machines with the same processor. Flat lithium-polymer batteries make use of all available space and are nonremovable to free up room usually used for battery connections and encasements. And they’ll last five years—that’s 1,000 recharges—thanks to a chip that sends juice only to the battery cells that need it, so the others don’t overcharge and burn out.
From $1,200; apple.com
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Seriously? My macbook pro might hit 8 hours if it's in standby. NTM my 3 y/o toshiba is faster, lighter, bigger screen, and far cheaper. How did this laptop even make it into consideration?
My macbook bro is currently employed keeping a rusty hole punch from sitting on the ground right now...
are you insane? a laptop that runs on battery for approx 8 hours per charge? That's amazing. I have two computers: the new edition of MacBook Pro and a Dell Inspirion 1545. In comparison to both of them: I personally like the MacBook better over the PC, due to the complications of the Windows and the struggles I experience with trying to streamline with my programs and hardware to the Windows platform. With the MacBook Pro, I never had any problems with that kind of issue. Surprisingly, they are much better now today than before.
I'd go for reliability over speed, bigger screen, and cheap prices. Think about it: a $1,500 Mac laptop with an outstanding warranty and virtually no problems with viruses and programs versus a $500 PC-based laptop with possible repairs and unnecessary updates that slows the speed down and lousy warranty...reliability always win.
My point was that a macbook pro hitting 8 hours on battery is virtually non-existent. My classes are 4 hours long, with 3 10-15 min breaks during which I can charge my laptop. The laptop will go from full charge to dead during 1 class. Straight through it doesn't last much more than 1 hour usually.
This is, of course with the better GPU activated, and running full power, however: if I underclock my toshibas vid card and activate all of the power saving options, it too will last over 5 hours straight. ( Longest I have gotten with my macbook was 6 hours...when it was brand new. )Yet, battery life was the reason they chose this laptop...odd
As for the issues: Those are debatable, and besides the point: Those are all OS and user related, NOT hardware related. I've been running a beta version of windows 7 for about 6 months. I have had the OS crash twice, both hardware failure related ( that's what I get for OCing ), and I have only ever gotten 1 virus, and no slow downs.
@zechio,
I have been very impressed with my MBP 13". The battery life so far has held up for 6 hours under what I would classify as 'normal' (web, email, word processing, photo editing, etc). In fact, I'm on battery power as we speak. It may not be the 7 hours that Apple advertises, but it is FAR better than any PC out there. And I do not need to 'under-clock' or tinker with anything to get that kind of performance. The MBP is great engineering and design...pure and simple. Apple sets the standards for others to try and follow.