5 Laptops That Outshine The MacBook Air In Battery Life

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The MacBook Air might be the best Apple laptop for most users, but battery life, while impressive, is hardly the best on the market. Apple promises 18 hours of battery life, but benchmarks and real-world tests by dedicated users don’t quite reach that number. That’s not surprising, given the limited 53.8 Whr battery, but most test still go above 12 hours on a single charge, plenty of time for most users. But if you’re reading this, you’re not most users, at least when it comes to autonomy from the power outlet.

You won’t be surprised to know that Apple’s more expensive laptops, the ones in the MacBook Pro M5 lineup, were some of the first models we thought of when writing this article. However, some of the models you’ll see below really came out of left field. Two-in-one laptops, the ones that flip into the shape of a tablet, are unexpectedly some of the longer-lasting laptops in the market. And since the bulk of the list is made of good old standard laptops, we’ve gone through what makes each unique, beside the great battery life.

Dell XPS 14

The Dell XPS 14 is a modern version of a classic Dell laptop, and it’s impressive on multiple fronts. It’s really portable, being less than an inch thick and weighing only three pounds. It comes with decent specs in its base configuration, but there are quite a few upgrades available. Of course, it also has an exceptional battery, but only sometimes. During video playback tests conducted by PC Mag, it lasted a few hours less than the Apple MacBook Pro M5, but the XPS 14 lasted a whole 43…

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