[TriLUG] Dear lazyweb^WTriLUG, Laptop suggestions?

[Ron Kelley]

I don't know if I get *6* hours out of my Mac, but it feels pretty close.  I routinely sit on the couch for +3hrs doing a bunch of stuff and still have 65% battery life.

Two big things to do for better battery life: (1) install an SSD, and (2) lower the screen brightness.  



-Ron




On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:13 PM, Alan Porter wrote:

> 
>> I'll need about 6+ hours of battery life for the occasional
>> cross-continental flight.
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> I swear, I feel like I just showed up at a Ferrari driver's club in a moped.
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> I hear people talking about 6+ hours of battery life.  Mac people never even bother to carry a power cord with them.  And yet my Dell XPS L501X offers a whole 19 MINUTES of battery life!  19 MINUTES! That's just long enough to unplug from one wall outlet and plug into another wall outlet... if I walk fast.
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> When the Dell XPS laptop was brand new in 2010, the battery lasted 65 minutes.
> 
> So when people talk about hours of battery, I go into some sort of perverted inverse of the Steve Jobs reality distortion field and I just assume they are lying, that their battery life sucks just as bad as mine does.  And I have always resigned myself to just carrying around a power cable, lugging that nuclear power plant along with me.
> 
>   Why is everything I own rubbish? - Ron Weasley
> 
> So please, someone tell me that somewhere, someone actually does run Linux on a laptop and that they get 6+ hours of battery life.
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> In the meantime, my finger is on the trigger at the Apple store.
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