4 budget ultraportable laptop batteries for back to school

IDG News Service - Laptops are getting faster, more portable and cheaper as the back-to-school season rolls in. A new range of lightweight laptops from PC makers priced between US$400 to $600 are as portable as netbooks but offer much better performance. These laptops come with screen sizes ranging from 11.6 inches to 13.3 inches and can offer long laptop batteries life, sometimes in excess of six hours. Toshiba in mid-June launched the Satellite T200 series of laptops with screen sizes ranging from 11.6 inches to 13.3 inches, and with prices starting at $549. Hewlett-Packard's Pavilion DM1z For those who prefer HP, the Pavilion DM1z laptop is a lightweight budget laptop that includes an 11.6-inch screen. Priced starting at $449, the laptop weighs about 3.24 pounds (1.47 kilograms) and can run for around five hours on a single six-cell battery charge. Acer's Aspire One laptops Acer in late June announced two new Aspire One laptops with low-power AMD chips. The laptops include integrated ATI Radeon HD graphics to display high-definition multimedia content, and come preloaded with the Windows 7 OS.