Sony Switching Battery Life Scoring Method, No Longer Advertising Wildly Misleading Numbers

Lol, take a look at this

Battery Lies

Sick and tired of never getting even close to the 10 to 12 hours of battery life advertised by PC companies on your laptop? Sony hears you, and is taking pains to improve at least one thing about their power packs. No, not the overheating factor, though they say they've got that somewhat under control now, honest! The company recently told PC Authority that they would be switching to a more realistic measurement for advertising their notebook battery figures. Yay?

Notebook vendors usually base their battery numbers off of Japanese tech association Jeita's method, which measures power depletion when the laptop's completely idle and then averages that number with the laptop's life when running a movie file. Sony will be switching to a Jeita “A” standard, which uses only the movie file test's results. Good news for the hapless consumer, I guess, but I'm pretty sure everyone was hoping for something more like “Hey, your battery will in fact last eleven hours and it won't explode on you either!”

 

Yeah, there's a new HP laptop that apparently boasts a 24hr battery life, I almost believed it for the first few seconds, then I remembered how ridiculously inaccurate the measurements are.

 

I would love to have a laptop that lasts 24hours... my SR only last around 2.5 hours under very light use.. when sony claimed 6 hours

 

TongtheTiger if you have the SR with dedicated graphics and the standard battery Sony claimed a battery life of up to 3 hours 50 minutes for this laptop and with wifi of it probably should be able to do that.

The ATI cards don't seem to be quite as good as the Nvidia equivalent cards when it comes to battery life.

 

I've met and exceeded sony's claims for my CR.

I simply wish they'd give a range, like the range given on the MPG stickers on cars. Average is good, but i want to know how long it'll last when completely stressed as well as completely unstressed.