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<\/a>To test the new 2013 MacBook Air\u2019s staying battery power we ran the Laptop Battery Life\u00a0 Test, which uses a script to continuously surf more than 25 popular websites on 40 percent brightness. On this test, the Air lasted an epic 11 hours and 40 minutes. This runtime is just 20 minutes short of Apple\u2019s lofty claim, nearly 6 hours longer than the ultraportable category average (6:02) and close to 4 hours longer than the last Air (8:02).<\/p>\nAmong five 13-inch notebooks we\u2019ve tested recently running Windows 8, none of them surpassed 8 hours life with their standard laptop batteries<\/a>. In fact, when we tested the MacBook Air on 100 percent brightness, its 6.5 hours of battery life beat the Dell XPS 13 (5:50) and Acer Aspire S7 (4:10) with their standard batteries. And while we expect these and other laptops to improve once they\u2019re upgraded to Intel\u2019s latest Haswell chip, the first 4th gen Core Windows laptop also trails the Air by a wide margin.<\/p>\n The closest competitor to the 13-inch Air right now is the Sony VAIO Pro 13, which also uses Intel\u2019s Haswell CPU. To be fair, the Air packs a\u00a01.3-GHz Intel Haswell Core i5 ULT processor, compared to a faster\u00a01.8-GHz Core i7-4500U CPU inside the Sony we tested. On the Laptop Battery Test, the Pro 13 lasted 7 hours and 20 minutes, which is fairly good endurance when you consider that this notebook also features a touch screen.<\/p>\n The bottom line is that if you\u2019re going to carry a 3-pound laptop, you should be able to leave the charger behind and not even think about it. The new MacBook Air lets you do just that, and the Windows camp now has to play catch-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2013 Apple MacBook Air beats the last Air and every Windows Ultrabook by a mile when it comes to endurance. Thanks to Intel\u2019s new 4th generation Core (Haswell) processor and a beefier battery on the inside, the new Air doesn\u2019t need an extended battery or slice to last all day on a charge.\u00a0 And we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[136,137,138],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laptop-reviews","category-tech-info","tag-acer-as07b71-battery","tag-laptop-batteries-life-test","tag-standard-laptop-batteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"toshiba-pa3534u-1bas-laptop-battery\"](\"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/toshiba-pa3534u-1bas-laptop-battery.jpeg\")
<\/a>Adding a sheet battery extends that runtime to a whopping 14.5 hours, but it also adds to the system\u2019s weight and $150 to the price. The Acer Aspire S7 offers a similarly awkward and pricey external battery that boosts that notebook\u2019s endurance, but we\u2019d rather get great\u00a0Acer As07b71 Laptop Battery<\/a> life without spending extra money or bloating the design.<\/p>\n