HP has beaten Dell - in the laptop battery longevity hype stakes, that is. It"s produced a notebook with a full-day runtime, it claims - five hours longer than Dell"s most recent battery life boast. Register Hardware readers will not be surprised to learn there"s a catch. Several catches, in point of fact.
First, you need to add an optional-extra secondary battery to the EliteBook 6930p to come within striking range of the claimed duration. Punters will also need to make sure their 6930p uses not only one of Intel"s new 80GB solid-state drives but also an "HP Illumi-Lite LED display". They"ll have to run Windows XP - not Vista, you"ll note; so much for the latest technology.