Screen size vs Battery life

I'm planning on buying a new laptop that I will be using throughout my last year of high school and in college. One of my main concerns is the size of screen that I get. I want to be able to comfortably see everything but still have good portability as well as battery life. I'm not sure how long I need as far as battery life, but I'd assume 4-5 hours if at all possible.

Does anyone have an estimate of how big of a difference the battery life is between 15.5" laptops and 14" laptops?

 

The answer depends on the specific notebooks in question.

Depending on what courses you will be completing in college will depend on the size and resolution of the screen you need to use.

For note taking duty, anything 13" and larger is fine - a great example would be the U30Jc I am currently using with up to 8hrs battery life.

For designing and/or other content creation software uses, a 1600x1200 resolution screen will go a long way to increase your productivity - whether it is 14" or 15.5" the resolution is what you want to pay attention to - not simply the screen size.

Of course, the larger notebooks will weight more, but you will more easily be able to get the higher resolution options with them too.

I would be looking at a Core i3 or i5 with Optimus Graphics in a 14" form factor - you'll be very happy with this setup for a long time to come.

Good luck.

 

if u want something like this , the hp envy 15 is best.. it can get 4-5 hours easily and it can have 2 batteries.. a main one and a secondary slot battery... it also economical and fully speced about $1200-1500 and u can also get a discount.