Toshiba NB205 Netbook Gets 8.5 Hours Of Real-Time Battery Life

10-inch, Atom-based netbooks tend to blend together in the mind, as they all have similar specs and similar designs. But when you can boast an insane 8.5 hour battery life in real-world conditions, we sit up and take notice.

Laptop Mag took a gander at Toshiba’s NB205 netbook and found an awful lot to be happy about. The netbook, which boasts the same specs as every other 10-inch netbook out there (1.66GHz Atom, 160GB hard drive, 1GB RAM, Windows XP) seems to really bring it in the non-component hardware department, with a stellar keyboard and thankfully normal-human-sized trackpad along with an LED-backlit display and, of course, that crazy 6-cell battery. They managed to eke out 8 hours and 33 minutes of real time battery life, which means continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi. That’s far and away the best battery life we’ve seen on this category of netbook, and with its above-average performance, it definitely looks like a mini-laptop worth your attention if you’re in the market for a 10-incher. [Laptop Mag]