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HP laptops get new battery that charges quicker, lasts longer

SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. -- HP plans to offer as an optional upgrade for some consumer notebooks a new kind of lithium ion battery that charges faster than regular batteries and lasts three times longer.

The battery is made by Boston-Power, which announced iut as the Sonata battery. HP will re-brand the battery as the HP Enviro battery, and start offering them early next year. 

Conventional batteries offer roughly 300 charge cycles before becoming useless. The Sonata, or Enviro, promises 1,000. HP will sell the Enviro with a three-year warranty. 

The new battery should allow an 80-percent charge in thirty minutes, which is better performance compared with conventional lithium ion batteries. 

HP has not announced pricing. 

What People Are Saying

Yes, I doubt.. Everytime is

Yes, I doubt..
Everytime is the same. PC companies, promisses longer and longer batteries lifes, but when you buy the laptop and starts using, the maximum you can get is around 4 hours....for new machines and then starts falling down.....

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Really About Time

Improvements in battery performance are MUCH needed. I was reminded of this this morning while starting out with my coffee and laptop. My blissful morning was short lived due to the lack of battery power.

my laptp is HP

my laptp is HP

really good news

really good news for hp.

It's too bad it's all

It's too bad it's all corporate greed at its best... there's battery technology out there that lasts 20x longer on a charge, and capacitates more than 10x the power of current batteries today.
HP feels it is necessary to release the larger charge capacity batteries first before they release their new-tech to the public to capitalize on it. Wouldn't you?

OK

You say there are longer lasting batteries that they are not releasing. How about so facts to back the statment or is this just hear say? Without some real onfo you just sound like the engine repairman that says there are carburators that get 100 MPG. He knows so much but can not get his own to 25 MPG. Real facts or leave it along.