dude_56013
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I would say about 3-4 hours with just word processing, medium brightness and wifi turned off.
What about Sony? I've always liked the Sony Vaio series I see in stores. Never actually test it out fully though.
I've got a Vaio, Teny. I will never buy any other brand laptop than Sony now that I've had it over a year and a half. It's wonderful. Everything I could have asked for and more. Yes, I paid a little bit more for it over a similar spec'd competition laptop, but I also got the accidental damage protection since it was my first laptop and because I'm at college (can't control the craziness of other people around in the dorms). It was worth it. It's paid for itself, to be honest. I was great for my computer business as well. I'm dead serious. I'll never buy another brand. Sony's got me hooked. Battery life isn't the best as it's a 16.4" screen, but I didn't take my desktop to college, so it needed to be a decent desktop replacement. I did get the bigger battery, so when it was new I got about 3 1/2 hours of battery life on full brightness. Now i get about 2:45-3 hours on it. It's still great. I'm sure it'll plug along for a couple more years. One note, what I did to save dough was get just the cheapest RAM option and I upgraded it myself immediately. I also got the cheapest 7200RPM HDD. That was a 320GB. I just now upgraded to a 640GB as I finally started running out of room. Next time, I'll get the cheapest drive period and upgrade immediately to whatever option I feel necessary. All in all, great purchase. Don't regret it at all. The one thing I miss is a dedicated number pad as part of the keyboard, but I just bought a 10 dollar one to plug in when needed--which isn't as often as I had thought.