14 DAY TRIAL // Most of today's netbooks are all basically the same, especially if you compare two systems that are based on the same Intel Atom platform. This means that there are only a few aspects where a PC vendor can improve its system, providing a better overall product compared to other competitors on the market. One of these aspects is the battery life, as most netbooks are required to deliver a decent one, providing the end-user with on-the-go access to the Internet and other basic computing features.
One of the best products out there, when it comes to the battery, is undoubtedly the Samsung NC10, which can offer as much as 7 hours of runtime with a standard 6-cell pack. However, the NC10 could provide the user with almost a full working day's worth of battery life, when equipped with a 9-cell battery, manufactured by a third-party company.
On that note, UMPC Fever has been testing an NC10 running on a third-party 9-cell battery, which has apparently produced some rather interesting and noteworthy results. The battery was from Batterysquare and featured a 7800 mAH capacity, higher than what you will find on Samsung's standard 5400 mAH pack. The netbook was set to run with the BIOS power saving on, with the screen brightness at 37.5-percent, WiFI on (no WiFI power-saving), CPU at full throttle and both the auto-dim and auto-hibernate features turned off.
With these settings in mind, the 6-cell battery-equipped NC10 could run for 8:01 hours, while the 9-cell battery option upped the ante to a more than impressive 12:10 hours. When using a web-surfing emulator, the NC10 could provide 6:12 hours on the 6-cell battery and 9:34 hours on the third-party 9-cell battery. Stepping things up a notch, the NC10 ran Battery Eater Pro 05 v2.7, where the 6-cell battery could provide 4:46 of runtime, while the 9-cell battery lasted for an impressive 7:16.
This could look like what your netbook requires, especially if you consider the $99.99 price tag, but you should take into consideration that third-party batteries are still considered a risk to your PC.