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.

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.