Compare battery life of Macbook Air 2013 and Ultrabooks running Windows 8

Thanks to the low power consumption of Intel Haswell 4th generation processor, Apple's 2013 Macbook Air is rated as one of the Ultrabooks with the best battery life today.

But with the launch of the new Macbook Air , the market also quickly launched many laptops running Haswell chips. To compare the battery life between these devices, the laptopmag technology site uses LAPTOP Battery Test software to find out which Ultrabook model has the best battery life today.

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Test scenario of LAPTOP Battery Test is for devices to surf the web continuously on 25 popular websites today with screen brightness of 40%. In this test, the Macbook Air 2013 (13 inch) rolled excellently with a battery life of 11 hours 40 minutes. This result is 20 minutes lower than Apple's ads but almost 6 hours longer than the average battery life of ultraportable laptops (average battery life reaches 6 hours 02 minutes ). In addition, the Air 2013 battery life is also significantly higher than its predecessor previously released ( 8 hours 02 minutes ). Two models of Dell XPS 13 ( 5 hours 50 minutes ) and Acer Aspire S7 ( 4 hours 10 minutes ) proved to be the most battery-poor.

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Of the 5 13-inch notebook models running Windows 8 that laptopmag recently tested, no one has a shelf life of more than 8 hours when setting the screen brightness to 100%. Specifically, Macbook Air can only operate continuously for 6.5 hours . This shows that the screen continues to be the most battery-consuming component.

Compared with competitors of 13-inch size and also running Haswell processor Sony VAIO Pro 13 , the Macbook Air 2013 still proved to dominate battery life. In the LAPTOP Battery Test, Vaio Pro 13 reaches 7 hours and 20 minutes.

However, this result is still welcome because the Pro 13 is equipped with a touch screen and runs a 1.8 GHz Core i7-4500U chip that consumes more power than the 1.3 GHz Core i5 ULT chip. Macbook Air. One advantage of Sony VAIO Pro 13 and Acer Aspire S7 is that these two devices are supported with external batteries that can double the usage time. But users will have to spend an additional cost of about 150 USD to own this battery.

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Sony VAIO Pro 13 has a very high-end design and price.

After all, up to this point Macbook Air 2013 is still rated as a ' battery monster' to ensure users can use it for a full day to recharge the battery.