HP HSTNN-CB72 Battery

Replacement for HP HSTNN-CB72 Laptop Battery

Battery Type:     Li-ion
Battery Volt:     10.8V
Battery Capacity:     9600mAh
Battery Weight:     722.45g
Battery Color:     Black
Battery Size:     218.40 x 60.55 x 42.7mm
Product Code:     NHP053
Sale price: AU $97.99

Description of HP HSTNN-CB72 Laptop Battery

• 100% new high quality Replacement HP HSTNN-CB72 Compatible Li-ion Battery
• Ultra High Power, No Memory Effect.
• Manufactured By High-Capacity power products.
• 1 year warranty. 30 day money back guarantee for HP HSTNN-CB72 Battery
• We accept credit card payment through WorldPay or PayPal payment system.
• We also accept Personal Cheque, Money Order and Bank Transfer, but Credit terms are not available.
• This laptop battery can replace the following part numbers of HP
  
  

  462889-121 462889-421 462890-151 462890-161 462890-251 462890-541 462890-751 462890-761 462891-162 482186-003 484170-001 484170-002 484171-001

  485041-001 485041-003 487296-001 487354-001 497694-001 498482-001 EV06055 HSTNN-CB72 HSTNN-CB73 HSTNN-DB72 HSTNN-DB73 HSTNN-IB72 HSTNN-IB73

We Need More Realistic Notebook Battery-Life Claims

One of the best features of Apple's new MacBook Airs hasn't gotten all that much attention. Here's Steve Jobs announcing it last week:

That's the 13.3? Air Jobs is talking about -- later on at the event, he introduced the 11.6? version and said it got up to five hours, again with the tougher tests.

I've been using the 11.6? MacBook Air over the past week and a half, and judging from my experience, Apple's estimate of five hours is indeed realistic. It's about what I'm getting -- which is a pleasant surprise considering that I'm used to discounting the battery life claims made by laptop manufacturers (including Apple) by anywhere from thirty to sixty percent. The Air's five hours remind me more of the ten-hour claim Apple makes for the iPad; it seems fair.

Now, I'm not saying that typical hp laptop battery claims are lies, and I know that the words "up to" are meant to indicate that that the numbers aren't promises. They're way closer to best-case scenarios than Harry-case ones -- what you may get if you don't push the notebook very hard. And even then, they feel high in many cases. Last year, AMD's Pat Moorhead guestblogged here and noted that PC manufacturers' battery tests tend to involving cranking screen brightness way, way down. But I do that myself -- and turn off features like Bluetooth, and opt for "power saver" modes -- and I still generally fall short of the claims.

I don't seem to be a freaky exception, either. I did a totally unscientific survey of my Twitter followers, asking them if they ever get remotely the battery life that manufacturers claim. Most of them say the claims don't jibe with their personal realities:

I think we all know that there are claimed battery lives and actual ones, and that they often have nothing to do with each other. (One of my favorite computer merchants, Dynamism, is one of the few that acknowledges this: Its laptop listings generally mention both the vendor estimate and a real-world one.)
Wouldn't both notebook manufacturers and notebook shoppers be better served if the industry adopted tests similar to whatever Apple is now using? The current Fantasyland approach may help sell laptops, but it also ensures that a high percentage of buyers will face disappointment the moment they start using their new machine. It leads to consumers assuming (reasonably) that they can't trust the companies they buy computers from. That can't be good for anyone.  toshiba laptop battery

Barring a move to one more realistic figure, how about always quoting a range rather than one magic number? It's clear that performance will vary wildly depending on how a computer is used, so wouldn't it be logical to say that a given machine may get anything from four hours to twelve hours?