Were all your PC notebooks in the desktop replacement catagory?  New
batteries?  Even with a battery that only had half the rated capacity, my
Thinkpad R40 got 2 hours out of the battery, including using an Cisco 350
Aironet wifi card doing normal email/web type stuff.  My R51, with about 2/3
of the capacity left, gets about 90 mins.  My Sony Vaio F480 easilly got
about 6 hours between two 3 year old batteries.  My ex-girlfriends HP ze5200
desktop replacement however, only got about 45 mins on a brand new battery.


eric



On 11/16/06, Matt Nesteruk <matt.nesteruk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I love my apple.  It has been the best laptop i have ever owned.
> Personally, i have never had a laptop last over a year without something
> going wrong with it.  Prior to purchasing my ibook, I owned many PC brands
> like Dell, HP, Compaq, and Sharp.  They were all good machines, but the
> battery life was always horrible.  On a good charge, 45min to an hour was
> all i could get out of them.  What good is a laptop if you have to be near a
> plug all the time?  When my last PC laptop died, i went out in search of the
> longest battery life in a laptop.  Apple boasted 4 hours on their 12in
> ibook, so i purchased one.
>
>