Asus Claims 12-Hour Battery Life in New High-End Laptop
By Craig Lloyd on Jan 12th, 2010 at 11:52AM
You’d be lucky to see your high-end laptop today push out 3 hours on a single charge, but Asus says it has a laptop that can do 12 hours. The UL80JT can do numerous micromanagement tasks like switching between the Nvidia GeForce 310 and the Intel GMA graphics when needed, and the Core i7 can re-clock itself on a second-to-second basis. All this is done automatically to conserve power, which is why Asus thinks that this sucker can push out a half-day of battery life. We highly doubt that it actually gets that, but we’d bet that it runs a lot longer than most other high-end laptops.
via [Ars Technica]
I have to say, I really like the trend of making the touch pad flush with the body of the laptop. I’ve seen several manufactures do this now, and I think it looks really sleek.
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Craig Lloyd Reply on January 12th, 2010 at 8:22 PM
@Trevor – I definitely like it too, but I wish Asus would make the mouse click buttons more easier to press. It seems like you have to put a lot of pressure on the button.