A laptop with good battery life used to be mean a skinny, under-powered notebook that sacrificed performance to squeeze every extra minute out of a charge. Obviously the more powerful a system is, the more power it draws, and the less time a battery can handle supplying that power.
But research into extending battery life -- not to mention work from processor manufacturers -- has yielded huge dividends over recent years, and while the super-svelte portables and the laptops designed for basic productivity tasks (think Chromebooks) still provide the most time between charges, there are far more systems that boast solid battery life without sacrificing nearly as much performance as they once did.
Because impressive battery life can be found in pretty much every category of laptops these days, we're here to help you figure out which ones actually provide the best battery life for different laptop types, from Chromebooks to 2-in-1 hybrids to even gaming laptops. Check out a dozen of our picks for laptops with the longest battery life below.
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A business convertible laptop with a number of features -- and a price tag to match -- the Latitude 7400's most impressive spec has to be its battery life. While laptop review sites have varying methods of battery testing, top reviewers are getting at least 13 hours of juice from the system.
Though its eighth-generation Core processors options aren't Intel's latest, they're still powerful Core i5 and i7 options. Step up from the base configuration, and you get 8GB or 16GB of RAM, 256GB or 512GB solid-state storage, a full 1,920x1,080 14-inch display,