Hate it all you want. The only thing I was excluding was mention of the 17" screen, since I would never deny that that's a huge power drain on the laptop. Also, I didn't make it "say what I want", I edited out part of it; I emended it. They actually teach that sort of thing in journalism school, believe it or not. I did not change the meaning of Don66's statement; he was saying, in part, that a gig of RAM and his drive are notable power guzzlers, when they're not.
I notice that you didn't post the specs for the 5K80 drive; I didn't compare the power consumption of the 7200 RPM drive to a 4200 (in which case the power difference is still not a huge deal), but to a 5400 RPM drive. Nobody interested in performance would buy a 4200 RPM drive; those are solely for the budget-minded and people who need every minute of battery life they can get.
A large fast hard drive is not a power guzzler. Even the difference between the wimpy 4200 RPM drive you posted and the Travelstar 7K60 is around a watt or less for normal use, not idle. If you had been interested in fairness, you would've compared it to this drive:
Hitachi Travelstar 5K80
Isn't that amazing, now? Keep in mind also that some 4200-RPM drives one rev back have higher consumption than the 7K60.
Now I'm left wondering about the actual battery performance of this laptop. The 5 hour figure may be with the larger battery, the screen dimmed all the way, at idle. I'd bet that with the 6-cell laptop Don66 was not solidly gaming etc.
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