Three Apple products - the 13-inch MacBook Pro (2019), plus the 20 versions of the 15-inch MacBook Pro - surpassed their advertised 10-hour battery life.ĭell’s XPS 13 2-in-1 also exceeded its battery life claim (opens in new tab) (10 hours and 50 minutes) by 7 minutes in our real-world battery life test.Īs for Microsoft, the best way to describe my analysis of this laptop brand's battery life advertisements is 'almost is never enough.' Many Microsoft laptops were close to making the 2.5-hour window, but not close enough.įor example, Microsoft claimed that its Surface Pro 7 could last for 10.5 hours, but our lab results discovered that the device could stick around for only 7 hours and 52 minutes. Let's also give a round of applause for the laptops that surprised us because they exceeded their battery life claims in our lab. On average, Apple's advertised battery life was askew from our real-world testing by only 48 minutes. 1 spot as far as being right on the nose with how long its laptops can survive without life support. Still, this minor blemish doesn't take away from the fact that Apple's battery life advertisements were the closest to our results - the Cupertino-based company lands in the No. The only Apple product that didn't live up to the tech giant's battery life claim was the MacBook Air (2019) - the device conked out after 8 hours and 51 minutes in our testing, while Apple advertised it would last for 12 hours (opens in new tab). So imagine our delight when our lab results discovered that both devices persevered for about 10 hours and 20 minutes.

For example, the 15-inch MacBook Pro - and it's updated version with a 9th-gen processor - both claimed to survive for 10 hours. In some cases, our battery life results surpassed Apple's advertised battery life claims. Apple knocked it out the park with an impressive eight out of nine products that matched our battery life results in other words, 88% fell within our permitted 2.5-hour window.

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