That is playing a Blu Ray movie for that long? If so, that seems pretty good.

Yeah, a lot also depends on a couple of settings as well. Whether you have your laptop on powersaver, recommended or performance and what your screen brightness is set to being the primary factors. I usually have mine on recommended with full brightness. I can get about 4 hours on power saver with 65% brightness playing blueray. However there is a slight drop in framerate on powersaver which is why I never use it. I can get about 3h 30min on recommended with 65-70% brightness which is still very visible. I like my brightness way up though.

I have a 9 cell battery though since I use this laptop for gaming as well. On a standard battery you'd proably get about 1h 30 - 2h.

Sure....The ability to work, communicate and entertain yourself on the go is definitely useless. I mean I could just carry around my desktop and monitor for same effect.

They have more unstable, wireless internet, they cost a lot more and have weaker hardware, they have smaller screens with poorer resolution for my HD TV series and movies and games (not that the GPU's would support top notch graphics anyway) and they can't house more than one internal harddrive (and the ones with big harddrives as default are even more costly and external ones are slower). Basically, it offers everything a stationary can do, only the stationary does it a lot better for less cost, the only advantage it has is that it is mobile.

I don't need movies, games and internet when I'm out to have a coffee or I'm on the train, I enjoy human interaction or simple time away from a monitor. So for these reasons, they are useless to me. Of course, you probably can't grasp that our wants and needs are different since you clearly missed the "in my opinion" part. I'm also one of those guys who don't buy phones for hundreds of dollars to get a slightly less shitty camera and a slew of gimmicks because I want my phone to text and ring, music is best enjoyed on an MP3 player. Maybe I'm hopeless or retarded or just old fashioned but some of these products are completely meaningless to me.

They have more unstable, wireless internet, they cost a lot more and have weaker hardware, they have smaller screens with poorer resolution for my HD TV series and movies and games (not that the GPU's would support top notch graphics anyway) and they can't house more than one internal harddrive (and the ones with big harddrives as default are even more costly and external ones are slower). Basically, it offers everything a stationary can do, only the stationary does it a lot better for less cost, the only advantage it has is that it is mobile.

I don't need movies, games and internet when I'm out to have a coffee or I'm on the train, I enjoy human interaction or simple time away from a monitor. So for these reasons, they are useless to me. Of course, you probably can't grasp that our wants and needs are different since you clearly missed the "in my opinion" part. I'm also one of those guys who don't buy phones for hundreds of dollars to get a slightly less shitty camera and a slew of gimmicks because I want my phone to text and ring, music is best enjoyed on an MP3 player. Maybe I'm hopeless or retarded or just old fashioned but some of these products are completely meaningless to me.

It seems like it still has a little ways to go with efficiency, considering the standard battery life you mentioned. Overall, it sounds better than I thought though.

If you're going to buy a laptop with blu ray, then picking up a 9 cell baterry won't set you back much more and would be a sensible investment. Hell, you can get 12 cell batteries for a decent price, though that would be an overkill for your purpose.

If you intend your laptop to be a sort of mobile entertainment center I suggest getting one with a 9 cell or upgrading later.