The netbook market is moving towards having crazy long battery life on new netbook models. In the past, netbooks used to get a lot of flak for not lasting too long as far as their battery life was concerned. Think about it. You spend $300-$500 on a netbook, hoping to take it with you on the road without having to charge them all the time. The consumers asked and netbook makers listened. Now we have many laptops that last more than 8 hours. The next step for top netbook makers seem to be getting half a day of work per charge on their new netbook models. Asus has come close to that on ASUS Eee PC 1005HA-PU1X-BK Netbook. Eee 1005HA gives you 10.5 hours of battery life per each charge. That’s great, but it could be even better.

Samsung is now claiming that its N140 netbook will give you 11 hours of work per charge. Samsung does have some of the best netbooks on the market, but their battery life is nowhere near 11 hours. It seems Samsung, too, has understood that people are willing to pay a bit more to get much more battery life on their mini-netbooks. We have been giving Sony a lot of grief over its decision to introduce a netbook that only gives you 3 hours of work per charge. So it’s exciting to see other companies step up and come up with more energy efficient netbooks. Since we haven’t tested N140, it’s tough to say whether it can last that long but if it gets even close to that, it must be considered a win for netbook fans. N140 is certainly worth looking forward to.