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I assume you’ve seen this following on the Lifehacker site:dell laptop battery

I have an Acer Aspire One (with a 6 cell battery) and am very happy with both its performance and its price. The Sony you’re looking at appears to have only a 3 cell battery; the Toshiba has a 6 cell. I think you’ll want the extra hours you get from the 6 cell. Re getting the most out of a laptop battery, see the following:

Sheril, I highly recommend the Samsung n120 I have. Its keyboard is really great for a netbook, nice and light and the battery practically lasts foreve Inspiron 4000 Battery, ..well 6-8 hours easily. I’ve heard nice things about the Toshiba but never seen one in person. Good luck! Sam(bazon)

Sheril, I’d like to talk about the odd behavior of your battery.Inspiron 4000 Battery, Inspiron 4100 Battery, Inspiron 2500 Battery, Latitude CPX Battery, Latitude C600 Battery, I occasionally hear horror stories of lemon computers and I often wonder how much of it is genuinely “the lemon factor” and how much of it is the accumulation of tiny factors in the user’s behavior. The first thing I will mention is heat. Laptop batteries of all kinds are susceptible to heat, and the MacBook Air, because it’s such an extreme design, is especially vulnerable to heat. That machine must be kept out of hot environments such as baking cars in summer, roasting in direct sunlight, and so forth.

A second, less common factor is extreme vibration. Inspiron 4100 Battery, Again, the MacBook Air is especially vulnerable to this because it’s advertised as being lightweight. Ideally, you should carry any laptop inside a thickly padded carrier. Of course, that would contradict the whole point of the MacBook Air, wouldn’t it? In any case, every time a shock wave travels through that machine — every bump and bang — it degrades the delicate membranes inside the battery.

Lastly, the manner in which you cycle the battery affects its life. The worst case is to drain it down all the way to absolute zero, then charge it up partially, then drain it down again, then charge it up, over and over. In other words, the worst case graph of “level of charge” versus time would show a line stubbornly staying at zero, with occasional short forays up to 50% or 80%. That kind of profile kills batteries fast. The best case graph would be a horizontal line at 100% with occasional forays down to 50%. In other words, you want to keep that baby charged all the time, and NEVER let it discharge down to zero. It should be plugged in and charging most of the time that you use it at home or at the office, even if you’re using it.

I have a MacBook Pro with two batteries — I wanted to be able to use it on long flights. I have had it now for three years, Inspiron 2500 Battery,and both batteries are still providing me with about 90 minutes of operational time each. If I use the various strategies to reduce battery use, I can get two hours out of each.

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As general-purpose electronic computing devices get smaller, Inspiron 4000 Battery, Inspiron 4100 Battery, Inspiron 2500 Battery, Latitude CPX Battery, Latitude C600 Battery,more and more compromises get made in their design. Smartphones are the ultimate expression of this (thus far).

My advice is to decide what you cannot compromise on and cater to that need… then compromise on the other stuff. It sounds like you are well down that road already when you specify that you want a netbook, so just pursue that logic.

A netbook places a premium on small size and weight, while still having a (more or less) full keyboard.Latitude CPX Battery, Therefore you’re getting an ultra-small laptop that’s designed for easy transport. Also netbooks invariably use specialized low power processors that consume less power and put out less heat. These help extend battery life and make a smaller battery practical (many netbooks are getting longer average charge lifespans than the average laptop).

My guess? You’re a writer in at least part of your life. You need to figure out if you intend to spend longish spells writing on this netbook. If so go for a larger screen and better keyboard. However that will eat into your battery life, which you can compensate by getting a bigger battery, but at the expense of weight. Always with the compromises!

On the other hand if what you really want is a sort of communication tool, whereby you blog for a few minutes at a time, but no major writing/computing really, then you can probably forgo the larger screens and keyboards.

Figuring out what you can live without is the hard part. Latitude C600 Battery,Most people don’t want to give up anything at first and that pushes them into notebook territory.

If you love your Mac, stick with it. Of course they’re not cheap …

Fujitsu make excellent small computers, but they make a Mac look cheap! Sony have some pretty good slightly cheaper ones.

As for the EEEPC, you may love it or loathe it. Inspiron 4000 Battery, Inspiron 4100 Battery, Inspiron 2500 Battery, Latitude CPX Battery, Latitude C600 Battery,Walk into a shop and poke at it for, say, 30 minutes. And ask lots of questions - like how well does it run with ‘MSWord’ (or whatever programs you use), how many programs can you run before it starts to limp, etc.