The high-end notebooks guzzle battery life like anything, but recently Asus showed the world a notebook with 12-hours of runtime with its Asus UL80JT. This notebook is outfitted with two graphics chips – an Intel GMA and Nvidia GeForce 310, and the highlight of this notebook is its ability to switch graphics on the fly.

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The Acer Aspire 4820TG is a well-speced and fairly light notebook and is a tempting proposal for those who like to travel a lot with their notebook and do not want to compromise on the performance too much.

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• The plastic strip on the top of the silver web cam holder is falling off on the left side.
• The front of the screen case with the Asus logo on it is separating from the back on the left side
• The hinges that close the laptop are loose-like
• My caps lock, Shift, FN and ESC keys are all sticky without me doing anything to them. It’s like the mechanism is broken so I hear a click of the key after I release pressure.
• I’m out of Best Buy warranty and I’m not sure what to do.

Stupid Asus

Nothing but good things to say about this laptop especially when compared to others I’ve tried. The i5 processor provides the performance I need and want. It equates to pretty fast start up times especially compared to the i3′s, and opening up large programs or playing demanding games is breezy. I would’ve liked a 1gig dedicated GPU but actually I am very satisfied with the 5470 (512MB) card because the laptop doesn’t get extremely hot even when playing games like COD4MW2 at high settings but @ a little lower resolution (1024 x 768 I believe it was).

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Are you in the market for a laptop with powerful GPU and amazing battery life? Then, you might want to give a quick glance at the Lenovo U460 laptop which sports 8-cell battery. Weighing just under 2kg, it has magnetic latch, fingerprint recognition system and even multi-touch panel. Powered by Intle dual-core Pentium processor, it comes with 512MB of DDR3 video memory, thanks to the Nvidia Geforce 305M discrete graphics.

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Dell has introduced a new laptop which has astounding 5 hours of runtime. Powered by the AMD Athlon II Neo K325 dual-core processor, it features 13.3-inch display, full-size keyboard, 2x USB ports, VGA, HDMI, 7-in-one multi card reader, eSATA port and a 6-cell battery.

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