Laptop Mag:

“Uh huh, sure!” we say sarcastically when a laptop brand boasts about its product’s “spectacular” battery life. Forgive us at Laptop Mag for being skeptics — if you’ve been testing a crapload of laptops that rarely lived up to their battery life hype, you’d be a cynic, too.

Let’s start with some good news! Not all laptop brands have been spewing tall tales about their products’ battery life. Apple and Microsoft are the top two companies that made battery life claims that were closest to our real-world test results.

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. In some cases, our battery life results surpassed Apple’s advertised battery life claims.

Good news for Mac laptop users.