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The top 25 notebook battery life performers

 It should come as no surprise that battery life is one of the key things we look for in a laptop. What is surprising is which laptop brands and models take the top spots. They're not always the usual suspects.  Why are we so obsessed with battery life? More than screen size, processing power or number of ports, it's the first thing many laptop buyers think about before making a purchase, whether it's school laptops, business laptops or gaming laptops. After all, you don't want your PC shutting down in the middle of a Netflix binge or while taking notes in a long lecture class, and carrying around a battery backup is just a hassle. While at one time Apple's MacBooks (the MacBook Air and the Apple MacBook Pro) controlled much of the top of this chart, the current winner comes from an unexpected place: Asus' ExpertBook B9450F. The company's ultralight business laptop comes in at over 16 hours. Battery for Dell Studio 1735 LG's Gram series is best known for...
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Laptop buying guide: Here's what you should look for in a new computer

  QUESTION:   Can you help me with the alphabet soup of buying a new laptop?  What’s actually important to consider for a basic unit? ANSWER:  It’s not hard to become overwhelmed by all of the specs thrown around when you’re looking at a new laptop, but what you plan to do with it is the first consideration. If you’re not going to use it for gaming, video, photo editing or other higher-level tasks, you can focus on the basics: processor, RAM, storage and battery life. I’ve often used the computer "kitchen" analogy to help folks understand the relationship and the importance of the primary components. Think of the processor as the chef, the RAM as a mixing bowl and the storage as the refrigerator. The processor plays an important role in computing as the faster the processor, the faster things will run, but only to a certain extent — I’ll explain later. Buying the fastest processor you can afford is always the best approach — even if you don’t have processor-intensive...
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