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Originally Posted by calvin-c
This, of course, assumes that we'll actually get 10 hours of use from the battery. My experience with cell phones suggests that connectivity significantly impacts battery life. As does age-so even if we get 10 hours use when new, how much will we get after a year? (Hopefully the battery is user-replaceable. Don't recall whether or not they said.) Wear, of course, will depend on use. I have a laptop that I've carefully 'husbanded' battery life, e.g. removing the battery when running on AC, etc. The battery lasts, as best I can tell (should have made notes, damn it!) as good as it did when new after 3 years. My wife's however, which is always in the laptop whether on AC or not, is only a year old but has lost at least 40% of its 'staying power'.
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Apple have a decent track record on battery claims - their iPods usually last longer than advertised. The ten ours was a claim for moving video - reading a book must be less.
Good point about the life of the battery - as in the number of charge cycles it can tolerate. The battery looks built in (common even in some of Apple's laptops now) - but then again so are the Sony PRS 505 and 600.