HP has said it has achieved a mobile-computing milestone by getting its EliteBook 6930p to operate continuously for 24 hours on a single battery charge.
The laptop used in the test is, however, rather different to those that consumers might purchase at the store--at least for now.
The machine is equipped with high-end components, including Intel solid-state drives (SSDs), a mercury-free LED display, and an optional, ultra-capacity battery.
The high-end components played a crucial role in making the 24-hour battery life possible. HP said the Illumi-Lite LED display, by itself, boosts battery run-time by up to four hours compared with traditional LCD displays, and the Intel SSD provides up to a 7 percent increase in battery life compared with traditional hard drives.
In addition to helping achieve outstanding battery life, Intel's SSDs provide greater durability and reliability, as well as faster system responsiveness, HP said. HP claimed its benchmarks show overall performance boosts of up to 57 percent on industry benchmarks, and data-transfer rates almost six times faster than those of traditional hard disks.
From October, customers will be able to purchase an HP EliteBook with the new Intel high-performance SSDs--which cost about six to 10 times more than standard hard drives--as HP is one of Intel's partners for its launch of the new Intel X25-M and X18-M Mainstream SATA SSDs.