2105 Best Laptops With All-day Strong Lasting Battery Life
Using our Laptop Battery Test (continuous Web surfing over Wi-Fi), BattAussie notebook battery experts have identified the longest-lasting battery life laptops on the market. We’re talking more than 11 hours of endurance, which should more than suffice for that cross-country fight, long day of meetings or multiple, back-to-back classes.
Lenovo ThinkPad T450s (15:26)
Our favorite business laptop lasts for 15 hours and 26 minutes on a charge with its extended battery, which is long enough to last through a flight from New York to Taipei. During that time, you’ll enjoy the 14-inch ThinkPad T450s’ sharp 1080p display, durable chassis, speedy Intel 5th Generation Core Series processor and best-in-class keyboard. Lenovo’s Power Bridge technology even lets you swap out the battery without powering down first.
Lenovo ThinkPad X250 (15:12)
Some ultraportable laptops skimp on endurance by using slimmed down, sealed-in batteries. The ThinkPad X250 bucks this trend by lasting 15 hours and 12 minutes with its six-cell battery on board. With a starting weight of under 3 pounds (using the extended battery adds 0.4 pounds), this 12.5-inch notebook is small and light enough to take anywhere, but functional enough to use as your productivity workhorse. A snappy keyboard, full-HD display and hot-swappable batteries complete the X250’s impressive package.
Acer Aspire One Cloudbook (14:43)
When it comes to price per hour of battery life, Acer’s $199, 14-inch Aspire One Cloudbook has every other system beat. On Laptop Mag’s Battery Test, the Cloudbook lasted a staggering 14 hours and 43 minutes on a single charge, 2.5 hours more than the next-closest budget machine, the Asus X205. You also get a big 14-inch screen, a sturdy body, a full-sized keyboard and Windows 10 instead of Chrome OS.
Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (14:00)
The latest MacBook Air keeps the same sleek design as its predecessor and adds a 5th-gen Intel Core i5 processor and even faster flash storage. And, with a 14-hour Apple a1278 battery runtime, it lasts nearly 2 hours longer than before. Add in OS X and its useful Continuity features, and it’s easy to see why the $999 Air is one of our favorite ultraportable values.
Dell Chromebook 13 (13:25)
With its soft-touch carbon fiber lid, magnesium alloy deck and full HD display, this 13-inch system certainly doesn’t look like a Chromebook. It also boasts a backlit keyboard, Intel Celeron processor and 16GB of storage, making it powerful enough for all cloud-related tasks. But its best attribute is its 13-plus hour endurance, better than any Chromebook we’ve tested.
Microsoft Surface Book (12:29)
When coupled with its keyboard dock, Microsoft’s first notebook will last up to 12.5 hours. But this “ultimate laptop” also comes with a clever fulcrum hinge, 13.5-inch, 3000 x 2000-pixel display, and a magnetically attached stylus. All this in a minimalist magnesium chassis that will probably end up in MoMA.
Asus X205 (12:05)
Not only does the Asus EeeBook X205TA offer more than 12 hours of Asus A42-G73 battery life, but it’s also cheap. At $199, it gives Chromebooks a run for their money while offering Windows 8.1 and solid everyday computing performance. That’s all while being clad in a dark navy blue that shimmers almost purple.
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