Laptop with the best battery life

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burntorangeVOLffle said:
Ok that makes more sense. In your OP you said Air. Those havent been on the market that long so I was a little surprised.

Im looking into getting a 13" Air in August around Tax free day. Like you I have an imac for heavy lifting but I need a portable for going back and forth to the office.

The way macs sync up there is no reason to go with a windows machine.
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Yeah in the OP I mentioned getting an Air. That's what I really want I'm just hesistant to drop the cash.

I agree about Windows, that's why I'm looking Mac or chromebook.

Bill whats your real world battery experience? I think it's rated at like 12 hours if I remember correctly.
 
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Freak said:
Yeah in the OP I mentioned getting an Air. That's what I really want I'm just hesistant to drop the cash.

I agree about Windows, that's why I'm looking Mac or chromebook.

Bill whats your real world battery experience? I think it's rated at like 12 hours if I remember correctly.
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I dont think I would like a chromebook due to everything having to work from the cloud. While I enjoy using dropbox and icloud for sharing files and keeping a few things handy when working on fifferent work stations, i think it would be kind of a pain to manage everything that way.

My biz partner and I actually use the iWork suite to collaborate quite a bit now. I usually launch the full apps to create new docs though.
 
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The wife got me a new Dell for Christmas and I've been very impressed with the battery life. Probably 5-6 hours on a single charge.
 
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Freak said:
Yeah in the OP I mentioned getting an Air. That's what I really want I'm just hesistant to drop the cash.

I agree about Windows, that's why I'm looking Mac or chromebook.

Bill whats your real world battery experience? I think it's rated at like 12 hours if I remember correctly.
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It's a little hard to say because I typically charge and use it over several days before recharging. My use is pretty similar to what you're planning on. I haven't found the 12hrs to be exaggerated at all.

I bought mine as a certified refurb from apple. I got it in December and it had less than 10 battery cycles (think it was 8) showing on the battery health app. I now have 58 cycles and it shows between 96-97% original capacity. I usually let it drain to less than 5% before plugging it in.

My specs are below. Paid $1099 and haven't noticed any indication it was a refurb other than the battery cycles.

Model Name: MacBook Air
Model Identifier: MacBookAir6,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 1.3 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
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volmanbill said:
It's a little hard to say because I typically charge and use it over several days before recharging. My use is pretty similar to what you're planning on. I haven't found the 12hrs to be exaggerated at all.

I bought mine as a certified refurb from apple. I got it in December and it had less than 10 battery cycles (think it was 8) showing on the battery health app. I now have 58 cycles and it shows between 96-97% original capacity. I usually let it drain to less than 5% before plugging it in.

My specs are below. Paid $1099 and haven't noticed any indication it was a refurb other than the battery cycles.
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thanks Bill. It really seems like the battery life on the MacBook Air is going to be hard to beat.
 
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The worst computers I've ever owned are PCs. A dell laptop, a dell desktop, and an E-Machines desktop. I got my first MBP last August and have never been happier. I really love the OSX Maverick operating system. Battery recharges fairly quickly too.
 
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Hey Freak, just a heads up. Apple dropped the price of MBA's by $100 and upgraded processor.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
Hey Freak, just a heads up. Apple dropped the price of MBA's by $100 and upgraded processor.
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Thanks for the heads up. I just saw that today. I'm debating between a refurb of last year's midel or a new one. I assume 256GB SSD is preferable? Anyone have any insight?
 
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Freak said:
Thanks for the heads up. I just saw that today. I'm debating between a refurb of last year's midel or a new one. I assume 256GB SSD is preferable? Anyone have any insight?
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Shouldn't you be asleep. I think it's past your bedtime.
 
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Freak said:
Thanks for the heads up. I just saw that today. I'm debating between a refurb of last year's midel or a new one. I assume 256GB SSD is preferable? Anyone have any insight?
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Personally I plan on getting the 128GB HD but ramp up the memory to 8GB. A laptop is a secondary device for me. All my heavy storage stuff like pictures and video will be on my iMac and I'll use icloud/dropbox for documents syncing. I dont plan on filling it up so I'll just save the money.

Now if you see a good price on the 256GB refurb then go for it.
 
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Got a brand new Macbook Air at Best Buy yesterday. They are on sale for $100 off plus I had $100 off education discount coupon (I can send a link if anyone is interested), then got another $20 off for signing up for store credit, throw in the ~$75 saved for tax free weekend and that's $295 savings on a brand new Mac. I walked out the door at $779.

Had to sacrifice the doing the memory bumb but that price was hard to pass up. I justified it by reminding myself I do have an iMac with 16 GB of memory. Anything requiring that can be done on that machine.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
Got a brand new Macbook Air at Best Buy yesterday. They are on sale for $100 off plus I had $100 off education discount coupon (I can send a link if anyone is interested), then got another $20 off for signing up for store credit, throw in the ~$75 saved for tax free weekend and that's $295 savings on a brand new Mac. I walked out the door at $779.

Had to sacrifice the doing the memory bumb but that price was hard to pass up. I justified it by reminding myself I do have an iMac with 16 GB of memory. Anything requiring that can be done on that machine.
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That's a great price. You can always add more memory later on for very cheap. I did it with one of my macs
 
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SDV said:
That's a great price. You can always add more memory later on for very cheap. I did it with one of my macs
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Unfortunately the memory in the MBA is soldered on. You are stuck with what you get. Best Buy only sells the 4GB model so that's what I got.

On the positive side Apple is constantly tweeking OSX to be less taxing on the memory with each year's updates.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
Unfortunately the memory in the MBA is soldered on. You are stuck with what you get. Best Buy only sells the 4GB model so that's what I got.

On the positive side Apple is constantly tweeking OSX to be less taxing on the memory with each year's updates.
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I gotcha. Mine was on an iMac. I also have a MacBook Pro but don't know if you can for it
 
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SDV said:
I gotcha. Mine was on an iMac. I also have a MacBook Pro but don't know if you can for it
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I upgraded my 2011 iMac too. Not sure if the newer ones can or not. Older MB pro could upgrade but the new retina ones can't.

I love Apple products but they do annoy me with this. It wouldn't bother me if they didn't gouge you on the upgrading it.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
I upgraded my 2011 iMac too. Not sure if the newer ones can or not. Older MB pro could upgrade but the new retina ones can't.

I love Apple products but they do annoy me with this. It wouldn't bother me if they didn't gouge you on the upgrading it.
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Yes they want more $$ from us
 
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Super impressed with the battery life of this MBA. Took it to work for 8 hours of heavy use and went home with about 30% left.

Charged it up on Thursday night and used in 30min to 2 hour spurts all weekend. Still has 25% battery.
 
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My Macbook Air will last several days on a full charge. I don't use it a ton, but I am on it a couple hours a day for work.
 
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