HP Promises 24-Hour Battery-Life with New Technologies

Ask any mobile warrior for their biggest complaint about computing on the go, and the answer will be, without fail, “battery-life”. The issue becomes worse as your craving for power increases, and some of today’s popular notebooks (15.4″ and upwards) suffer with less than three-hours of total battery-life… some even as low as two! Clearly, we need a revolutionary battery-type to come along.

Well, HP might just have what we are looking for. They’ve made an announcement that their new batteries last a long time, and by long, they mean twenty-four hours straight, based on tests with their EliteBook 6930p notebook. Aside from the battery, to reach such incredible lengths, one will also need an efficient SSD, Windows XP, an LED display and a special HP BIOS.

24 hours! That’s truly incredible if the claims are true, and given HP’s bragging of the 6930p’s ability to last the entire duration of the longest flight in the world, they’d better have what it takes to back up their claims. The display-change to LED alone added four hours to the lifespan, which is incredible enough. Hopefully these amazing new technologies will find their way into other company’s notebooks soon.

The ultra-capacity battery isn’t all that is needed to get 24 hours of use form the EliteBook. HP says that you also need to be running Windows XP, the latest Intel graphics drivers, and a special HP BIOS on the software side. HP is very specific on the hardware needs as well. The system has to be running HPs Illumi-Lite LED display and the new Intel 80GB SSD.