Battery life issue

Hi, first of all, Hello and hope to participate in many discussions in the future.

I'm looking to get my first Mac soon. This will be a Mac Book Pro with 2.53 GHz, 4 GB Ram and 500 GB HARD drive

My main job is a MS RAD Developer and so need to be able to Access/Excel VBA development and .net in Visual Studio (mainly the VBA) will run Vista for now, unless I can find my XP disks.

I read a lot on the internet about VMware Fusion, but no figure of real life battery and I was wondering if all current users are using windows to do the above. If you do how to find you and the big question before I spend money on the Mac, that's what kind of battery life could I expect everything using Fusion for development.

I understand there will be variables that will affect the battery life, I am really after a ball park figure.

Thanks in advance

Mike.

You will certainly more than two hours of a new battery.  Assuming that not cut you video with iMovie at coding anyway

After a year or more tho (at least with the old batteries) is when things start to deteriorate.  The new Macs with internal batteries have not released for more than a year (the 17 is a bit longer than others, but they have a different battery then other models in any case), so you won't find real-life stories on this point, however.

My old MBP does like 45 minutes, and it's from 2006.  Certainly it's an old battery technology, it was brand new, just for comparison of 4 hours.

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