I'm curious myself, cause I've never had great battery life by the sounds of thins on any of my laptops. I have one that lasts about 30 seconds if it gets unplugged, obviously needs a new battery .
When people say 8 hours, they mean like 8 hours of continuous use? Surfing the net of Wifi, running programs, listening to music etc. Or are we talking rest, or stand by or a combination of the 2?
My work laptop, is literally good for a couple hours, straight use, running pretty heavy software, wireless internet etc. It's also a referb, so who knows how old and how much abuse it went through when I got it, might have even been straight up used, was originally windows 8 though.
My personal laptop, I've never run into a point where I've needed to charge it, But I don't often use it for hours on end, not near its charger. I have left it in another room for days without plugging it in, but it goes to sleep and the battery lasts forever once its in sleep mode.
My question is, How long should an average laptop battery last surfing the net and listening to music?