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Business travellers expect a lot from their laptop but a trio of tightly-connected features tops the list. The ideal notebook should be thin, it should be light and it should have enough battery life<\/a> to last a whole day and then some.<\/p>\n

The first two traits naturally go together and they’re ideal for maximising space in your carry-on bag as well as taking from one client meeting to the next meeting.<\/p>\n

And being able to use the laptop at your airline’s departure lounge, during an international flight and still being able to do a quick email session at the airport while waiting for your bags to hit the carousel?\u00a0That seals the deal.<\/p>\n

So when will you be able to get a laptop that’s made for the long haul? When can you\u00a0hit the road but leave the AC adapter<\/a> at home?<\/p>\n

The answer to that question is \u2018today\u2019, depending on the price you\u2019re prepared to pay and sometimes the compromises you\u2019re willing to make. Some netbooks easily strut past the 10 hour mark but they lack the muscle, features and capabilities of a fully-fledged laptop.<\/p>\n

In some cases you can add a\u00a0secondary battery which replaces the notebook’s CD\/DVD drive or attaches to the notebook\u2019s underside (this type of Acer aspire 5920 battery<\/a> is sometimes called a \u2018travel slice\u2019) so you can hit the road with two full tanks of juice \u2013 although this adds to\u00a0the laptop’s bulk.<\/p>\n

But within the next few years that won\u2019t even be an issue. The ever-onwards march of technology in computer chips and other components will make \u2018all day computing\u2019 a trait of almost every laptop.<\/p>\n

“The challenge for us is to bring all day battery life<\/a> to the mainstream so that you take the laptop to work and leave the power supply at home” says Mooly Eden, general manager of Intel\u2019s Mobile Platforms group.<\/p>\n

“But \u2018all day\u2019 means different things to different people” Eden tells Australian Business Traveller<\/em>. “For me it might be eight hours, for you it might be ten hours.\u00a0And we need to do even more than that, because as the laptop gets older the battery life<\/a> will slowly get lower.”<\/p>\n

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Intel’s Mooly Eden showcases a next-gen concept notebook that’s wafer-thin, waif-light but can put in a solid day’s work before you reach for the battery charger<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Making notebooks better is part of Eden\u2019s technical DNA. Through his revolutionary work creating Intel\u2019s Centrino laptop technology<\/a>, which in turn laid the foundations for today\u2019s entire Core line of processors, the highly animated Israeli-American engineer and self-confessed ‘chip-head’ is widely considered to be the father of modern mobile computing.<\/p>\n

And Eden’s goal for Intel? “We need to deliver 10-12 hours without the charger. And we will<\/em> be able to do that, because all day battery life is not just possible, it is inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The foundations are already in place. Intel’s family\u00a0of Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 chips perform the neat trick of running faster than any previous generation of Intel silicon while drawing less power from the battery.<\/p>\n

And even that dollop of extra speed is being channeled into eking out extra battery life.\u00a0If you divide the laptop\u2019s typical working day into tiny slices of time, most of that day is spent in varying states of idle rather than being actively used.<\/p>\n

More processing muscle means the notebook can do the heavy-lifting faster so that it more quickly returns to the low-power idle state \u2013 and the more time it spends there, the longer the battery lasts.<\/p>\n

Eden calls this feature “hurry up and get idle”, and it\u2019s enhanced by \u2018turbo boost\u2019 modes which further accelerate the processor for short but intense bursts.<\/p>\n

These can be everyday tasks like opening an email attachment or previewing a PowerPoint deck as a set of thumbnails.\u00a0Tasks that take six seconds suddenly take three or four: but it’s less about speed than sleep.<\/p>\n

“The idea is wake the notebook up, do the job and then go to sleep again\u201d Eden explains. “If the chip does the job faster it can go back to sleep sooner, so you get better performance and you also get extended laptop battery<\/a> life. This is the real secret of energy efficiency.”<\/p>\n

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Notebooks such as\u00a0Apple’s\u00a0MacBook Air<\/a>\u00a0 (above) and the new Asus<\/a>\u00a0UX21 ‘Ultrabook’ (below) use advanced design and solid state drives to keep the waistlines slim and the weight down without sacrificing battery life.<\/p>\n

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Yet the processor is just one part of the notebook. The screen is responsible for the largest portion of a laptop\u2019s power drain, followed by the hard drive. Dramatic efficiencies in these areas are slower to come, with fewer breakthroughs and smaller leaps.<\/p>\n

That said, notebooks screens with LED backlighting draw less juice than the non-backlit models while also providing a brighter picture.<\/p>\n

And while ‘solid state drives’ (SSDs) draw almost no power compared to the conventional and battery-hungry spinning platters of a hard disk, their high price and relatively low capacity can make them impractical for many notebook users.\u00a0Seagate is leading the move towards a new wave of \u2018hybrid\u2019 hard drives where a high capacity hard disk is partnered\u00a0with a slab of solid state memory which automatically stores the most commonly-used files and data.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a growing trend towards lightweight operating systems which let you dive into email, browse the Web and play music or movies without loading Microsoft Windows.<\/p>\n

Typically based on Linux and embedded into a flash memory chip inside the laptop, these ‘Instant On’ systems spring to life within seconds instead of the hard disk-hammering (and power sucking) minute that Windows often demands \u2013 making them a boon for short work sessions on the go.<\/p>\n

Those are some of the technologies now converging into the next generation of notebooks. Give us a few years, the experts say, and almost every laptop will be built for the long-haul.<\/p>\n

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