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Originally Posted by Vincent Ferrari
One more thing related to that: that's exactly my point when I say the customers never get what they want. One of their considerations was good battery life. I don't know in what circles 2.5 hours is "good battery life," but none that I've ever seen. EVER.
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I have two lines of thought about this. First, for all we know these people could be coming from a five year old laptop that lasts 10 minutes on a charge. I see laptops like that all the time - people tend to keep using things until they break, largely because that laptop from five years ago might have cost them $2000 and they feel guilty about not using it any more. So 2.5 hours might be impressive for these people.
My second thought is that someone who wants long battery life but also a 17 inch screen is entirely clueless - with the exception of the 17" Macbook Pro and their "we'll put a HUGE battery in this thing and people will pay $2500 for it!!" approach, most 17" notebooks have awful battery life. The screen just sucks so much power that only people who are entirely clueless would think that a huge screen laptop would get great battery life...unless 2.5 hours is so much better than what they have now it really is good enough.
The issue isn't that there aren't Windows PCs out there with good battery life - hell, those HP and Dell enterprise laptops will do 20+ hours. The issue is, as always, cost. Those 20+ hour notebooks are $1500+, and the Macbook Pro is $2500+. So once again it comes down to balancing cost vs. features...price matters.