Laptop Battery Life Has Officially Reached Insane Levels

Attention, laptop-toting members of the global workforce: In an effort to maximize potential productivity to stratospheric levels, new portable computers with 30+ hour battery life will soon be entering the market.

Who to blame? Start with Lenovo. The company unveiled the ThinkPad T420 yesterday, promising that the machine “reaches new battery life benchmarks of up to 30 hours with an extended battery.”

Then feel free to re-direct some or all of your anger at HP, which today one-upped Lenovo with the EliteBook 8460p—a computer that “provides industry-leading battery life of up to 32 hours.”

Alas, the days of conveniently blaming our lack of productivity on dead laptop batteries are quickly drawing to a close. The EliteBook 8460p will start at $999 and be available in mid-March, while the ThinkPad T420 starts at just $779 and will also be available sometime in March. Neither price will scare off corporate purchasing agents. You have been warned.

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RichardSRussell

Remember that line in the graduate when the one-word tip about the career of the future was “plastics”? If that guy were around today, he’d be whispering “batteries”.
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The announcement was unclear about expected battery life if you turned the computer on.
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Please please please tell me the T420s display is better than the T410s!

I own a T410s and everything about it is perfect except the display is horrible, one of the worst displays I’ve ever had to stare at. The contrast ratio is 95:1 (WTF??) and overall quality is horrid, everything is whitewashed and fuzzy so you really have to painfully concentrate your eyes. It will give you a headache after staring at it for too long. Why did Lenovo go so darn cheap on the display????
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It will give you a headache after staring at it for too long. Why did Lenovo go so darn cheap on the display????