My Thinkpad T400 with a 9-cell battery gets 9 hours best-case and at least 4-5 with varying use including music and decent brightness.
AnandTech on the New 15-Inch MacBook Pro's Battery Life
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Re: AnandTech on the New 15-Inch MacBook Pro's Battery Life
#12"It looks like, once again, other notebook makers will have to play catch up to Apple in this department."
Apparently this reviewer is unfamiliar with the modern lineups of non-Apple manufacturers. For example, the Thinkpad T400 with nine-cell battery, which also weighs 5.5 lbs, gets 10 hours of battery life at 60% screen brightness. (The biggest difference being that the T400 has a battery that can be swapped on the go, and it costs less to get a Thinkpad of equivalent specs to a given MacBook Pro.)
Re: AnandTech on the New 15-Inch MacBook Pro's Battery Life
#13"It looks like, once again, other notebook makers will have to play catch up to Apple in this department." Apparently this reviewer is unfamiliar with the modern lineups of non-Apple manufacturers. For example, the Thinkpad T400 with nine-cell battery, which also weighs 5.5 lbs, gets 10 hours of battery life at 60% screen brightness. (The biggest difference being that the T400 has a battery that can be swapped on the…
It sickens me to see this sort of pandering to Apple. I'd expect a reviewer on a respected site such as AnandTech to at least maintain a semblance of neutrality.
Re: AnandTech on the New 15-Inch MacBook Pro's Battery Life
#14"It looks like, once again, other notebook makers will have to play catch up to Apple in this department." Apparently this reviewer is unfamiliar with the modern lineups of non-Apple manufacturers. For example, the Thinkpad T400 with nine-cell battery, which also weighs 5.5 lbs, gets 10 hours of battery life at 60% screen brightness. (The biggest difference being that the T400 has a battery that can be swapped on the…
The T400's battery does stick out the back though... so you're not making an oranges to oranges comparison. I, for one, don't like the idea of the battery sticking out the back. I'd prefer it to be a nice neat package (removable or not).
Re: AnandTech on the New 15-Inch MacBook Pro's Battery Life
#15so i got my Late 2008 Unibody MBP in october and now i'll be lucky if i get 2:20 just doing wireless web browsing with low brightness (they claim 3:20 for the same). I'll check in 9 months and see what kind of battery life they're getting.
2:20! do you have the dual graphical cards? I find that switching to the low power graphic cards will give me around 5 hours, but my mbp is only two months old. I'd be sad if it would deteriorate to 2 hours in just half a year.
Re: AnandTech on the New 15-Inch MacBook Pro's Battery Life
#16so i got my Late 2008 Unibody MBP in october and now i'll be lucky if i get 2:20 just doing wireless web browsing with low brightness (they claim 3:20 for the same). I'll check in 9 months and see what kind of battery life they're getting.
2:20! do you have the dual graphical cards? I find that switching to the low power graphic cards will give me around 5 hours, but my mbp is only two months old. I'd be sad if it would deteriorate to 2 hours in just half a year.
i'm always on the lower power GPU. for clarification, i can get around 4 hours with wifi off (on planes).
Re: AnandTech on the New 15-Inch MacBook Pro's Battery Life
#17so i got my Late 2008 Unibody MBP in october and now i'll be lucky if i get 2:20 just doing wireless web browsing with low brightness (they claim 3:20 for the same). I'll check in 9 months and see what kind of battery life they're getting.
Would it be possible to swap out the battery for one of the new ones? I'm in the same boat.
No. The new batteries are non-removable, and wouldn't fit.
Re: AnandTech on the New 15-Inch MacBook Pro's Battery Life
#18"It looks like, once again, other notebook makers will have to play catch up to Apple in this department." Apparently this reviewer is unfamiliar with the modern lineups of non-Apple manufacturers. For example, the Thinkpad T400 with nine-cell battery, which also weighs 5.5 lbs, gets 10 hours of battery life at 60% screen brightness. (The biggest difference being that the T400 has a battery that can be swapped on the…
The T400's battery does stick out the back though... so you're not making an oranges to oranges comparison. I, for one, don't like the idea of the battery sticking out the back. I'd prefer it to be a nice neat package (removable or not).
It's worth mentioning, but indeed not a straight comparison. The extended batteries on a Thinkpad aren't exactly pretty:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lenovophotolibrary/2774790879/
Re: AnandTech on the New 15-Inch MacBook Pro's Battery Life
#19"It looks like, once again, other notebook makers will have to play catch up to Apple in this department." Apparently this reviewer is unfamiliar with the modern lineups of non-Apple manufacturers. For example, the Thinkpad T400 with nine-cell battery, which also weighs 5.5 lbs, gets 10 hours of battery life at 60% screen brightness. (The biggest difference being that the T400 has a battery that can be swapped on the…
It sickens me to see this sort of pandering to Apple. I'd expect a reviewer on a respected site such as AnandTech to at least maintain a semblance of neutrality.
In this case, the reviewer is the very same Anand that built the respected site.
Re: AnandTech on the New 15-Inch MacBook Pro's Battery Life
#20...and still less time than if I carry a second battery around. And, if I'm doing the LA-Paris trip more than occasionally, I probably have three batteries.
What airline are you flying LA-Paris that doesn't have outlets, even in economy?
Air France? There were no outlets in economy on CDG-SFO flights (last checked last year).