NewCents05 said:my laptop gets 3-4 hrs worth on battery and it runs on a 3.33ghz p4 i find that a normal battery life.
What apps are you running? What is your GPU? I have friends who have P4 3.0 and 9700 Pro and they play HL2 and battery drains out in an hour or less. Some of them can't even get through a movie. My laptop which isn't a fair comparison because it is 2002 runs out even as fast as 30 mins just playing something not heavy like AOE I. If you can go for 4 hours playing HL2 it is amazing seriously. Toshiba gave you a suped up battery. Anyways, PMs are better than P4s. As for AMD mobile CPUs I don't know about those. When I was shopping for a newer laptop I only did research on Pentiums. I decided to keep this old one and upgrade my desktop at home.