Ars Technica- MacBook Air battery life is worst feature

A lot has been said about the fixed battery in the MacBook Air, the kind that must be sent back to Apple to be replaced.  A lot of reports of less than stellar battery life are starting to appear on the web and this one by Ars Tecnica gave me pause.  The author ran his battery down 4 times doing the type of work he does normally, web work, etc.  The average battery life was 2 hours and 33 minutes or half what Apple claims.  Equally disturbing was this statement:

Yes, Apple sacrificed some battery life for the bigger screen that I love so much, but it also advertises a battery life withwireless productivity that’s more than double my actual average. Italso takes me about twice as long to charge the battery back to 100percent than it does for me to run it down. Something about thissituation is wrong, and it’s not how I’m using the computer. Since Inamed a best feature of the Air earlier, I’ll go ahead and name batterylife (and tangentially, the inability to swap out batteries) as theworst.

Poor battery life and long recharge times, that’s what I’d call hot air.

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