HP recently announced a new industry-standard for mobile computing with a laptop that can operate up to 24 hours on a single battery charge.  The claim is based on the new HP EliteBook 6930p, equipped with a solid state hard drive, HP Illumi-Lite LED display and ultra capacity battery.

“All-day computing has been the holy grail of notebook computing,” said Ted Clark, senior vice president and general manager, Notebook Global Business Unit, HP.  “With the HP EliteBook 6930p, customers no longer have to worry about their notebook battery running out before their work day is over.”.

The 24 hours of run time is based on a so-called industry-standard benchmark.  HP also claims that its Illumi-Lite LED increase run times by up to 4 hours over traditional LCDs, along with certain hardware and software tweaks.

On a personal note, I’m pretty wary about realistically running an EliteBook 3930p for 24 hours as defined by actual real world usage.  Nevertheless, even if run times result in 8-12 hours of real world usage, it’s still pretty impressive!

Source: MarketWatch

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