Monday, October 5, 2009

Gateway LT2016u Netbook Has a Decent Battery...For a 3G Machine

While Verizon's netbook "deal" may not actually be a "steal," the Gateway LT2016u netbook actually does have a pretty decent battery.

Equipped with a 6-cell battery, the machine lasted six hours and six minutes on a standard Wi-Fi battery test. Four hours and forty one minutes was the reading for operating on the 3G network. Considering that 3G drains a netbook battery pretty quickly, the latter record is not bad at all.

The Gateway LT2016u also offers a meter so you can keep track of your data consumption. To learn more about Verizon's Gateway netbook offering, check out one of our previous articles.

Via Laptop.

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