I'm looking for a new laptop to substitute my (very old) Acer Travelmate. I have a powerful desktop system in the office, so I'd use the laptop only when travelling. In fact, in the last months I started travelling a lot, going to Budapest visiting our customers at least once a week (6 hours of train back and forth) as well as spending at least one week in Italy every month (12 hours of train-airplane-train from Pecs, Hungary to Torino, Italy).
For these reasons, I'm more interested in portability than computing power. The crucial point is the battery life: I'd love to have a laptop which I could use for 12 hours without a recharge while travelling across Europe, but I know that this is a dream.
Well, maybe it is not a dream anymore: according to the Dell website their new Latitude E6400 can achieve 19 hours (yes, 19 hours) of battery life with two 9-cells batteries (standard and additional). Of course I know that if they write 19 hours, they really mean 12 hours of real usage or so, but it is still amazing. I asked for a price quotation, and it seems that it is not that expensive (about 1.500 euro with a good configuration), making it an ideal candidate.
So, dear Lazyweb, do you have any experience with the Latitude E6400, especially with Debian? Do you have any suggestion for a laptop with a very (very) long battery life?
For these reasons, I'm more interested in portability than computing power. The crucial point is the battery life: I'd love to have a laptop which I could use for 12 hours without a recharge while travelling across Europe, but I know that this is a dream.
Well, maybe it is not a dream anymore: according to the Dell website their new Latitude E6400 can achieve 19 hours (yes, 19 hours) of battery life with two 9-cells batteries (standard and additional). Of course I know that if they write 19 hours, they really mean 12 hours of real usage or so, but it is still amazing. I asked for a price quotation, and it seems that it is not that expensive (about 1.500 euro with a good configuration), making it an ideal candidate.
So, dear Lazyweb, do you have any experience with the Latitude E6400, especially with Debian? Do you have any suggestion for a laptop with a very (very) long battery life?
