HP specs a 24 hour EliteBook, Dell's 19 hour mark hangs its head in shame
By Paul Miller 
posted September 8th 2008 1:56PM
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I call BS. Dell's claim is with a 9 cell battery AND a battery slice. HP's is with a 12 cell battery. My money is on that slice is at least 3 cells so my guess is HP is pulling some BS with the benchmarks to get this claim. Wait for the reviews. In reality it will probalby be around 12-14 hours and Dell's will be just under that.
Just like Dell's claimed 19 hour battery life, this is booting into their stripped down, embedded OS. You will get nothing close to 19/24 hours in anything resembling a real (ie. usable) OS.
Um, Brandon, Dell says the 19 hour time was achieved in the MobileMark 2007 benchmark, which runs in XP or Vista. See http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/latit/en/latitude_landing_e6400_battery_life.pdf and http://www.bapco.com/products/mobilemark2007/
Why would you post an assertion like that without checking your facts? Oh, yeah, the internet. Accuracy doesn't matter. Sorry.
It still has waaay too many LED's outside of the display. To finally ditch the christmas-tree case, would finally improve looks and might even cranck the 24h to ... to.... even more! :-)
Hmmm.... their accessories page only gives the 12-cell an additional 10 hours of usage to your laptop. Not sure how they are getting up to 24 hours with the standard 6-cell and the additional 12-cell. Even with the SSD card replacing the HDD and additional power management it seems like it would be tough to do.
"Increase the battery life of your HP Business Notebook by an additional 10 hours with the HP 12-cell Ultra-Capcity Battery."
IMMORTAL!!!!
ahh....im so buying that because Abbath is on it.
...and im being serious.
What does immortal have to do with a dell?
Even if in real life situations the computer "only" gets 10 hours of battery life, its still really good. When do you ever need to use a computer for more than 10 hours at a time?
Oh man, that picture is awesome. Anyone know where I could get a bigger version of that? Want to set it as my desktop.
Holy crap - they're finally getting close to 25-year-old technology!!! My Tandy Model 100 ran 20 hours (without "special" batteries - just 4 AA cells!) and has one heckuva lot better keyboard than that thingamajig... If I wanted to go with "big" batteries there's a thing called a "power pillow"... drum roll please... 200 hours on 4 D-cell batteries, and still *very* portable.
You'd need a couple of car batteries to get 200 hours out of... ahhh... I guess a couple more if it runs Vista. Oh, did I type that out loud??? ;-)
Top that, HP! (Oh, and bring back the real Alpha processor you snagged from ComDEC & buried - my DEC 3000 Model 300 is lonely & needs a *big* brother!)
-- z
"It's only natural physics", allegedly Abbath declared. "At least in terms of heat build-up and heat dissipation, things have always been the same: it's far easier to work on your notebook in a cold environment than strive to design complex and sometimes silly-looking heatsinks. That's why the new HP notebook has provided with superior working timings when cold, frostbitten and icy metal has been played on it; in relation to that, when we played Shakira, Britney and other shit that was "hot", the said device reduced its performance and behaved like any other common notebook. Play cold black metal, or other music related to frost, cold weather and stuff, and your PCs will amaze you! Stay cold!"