agreed for just web surfing i get a little over close to 6 hours i do have an ssd. without one friends of mine say they get around 4.45 close to 5. And if i just take notes i get around 8 hours easy. Watching video I think i was able to watch a good 3 hours on like 80% battery before it turned off (thru video). I took out my dvd drive and put the hard drive in there. So its a ssd + hdd combo.