About the battery life. Here's the brutal truth. For laptops they all hit the 2 to 4.x hour range. Nothing is outside that since it would incur more cost and not sell as many. So the market drives the laptops to be within minutes of each other.

Desktop replacement laptops however are not under the battery time gun so you get nearer the 2 hour mark which is why I note 2 to 4.x hours. Toss our those and you get 3 to 4 hours on stock configurations.

You would be hard pressed to not be able to do those tasks on today's machines.

A full up pentium 4 is a desktop replacement line and will have the 2 hour or less battery.

In closing, my Acer ter-600 (that's a p3-600) was what I used for years doing video editing on the road. You can't convince me that the new crop doesn't cut it.

Bob

Bob