I get approx 3 hours and 45 minutes, that is running Yahoo messenger, msn messenger, gmail talk, surfing the internet, running microsoft word, and some photoshop at the same time. When I game, I really don't see much difference. 
When I first bought the notebook I would see the battery life jump from 3:04 to 2:30 then back to 3:00 then down to 1.30 fast. 
I let the drained the battery life, by using the notebook until it just shut down automatically (no power left) 
, and recharged it. Then the battery life icon was accurate. 
I would say it depends on what you do.
and I bought from zipzoomfly. Other places did not have it at stock at the time, only zipzoomfly. So I ended up paying more to recieve it earlier. Palm rest do not heat. You will feel no warmth coming from it, from the right went yeah. Especially when you have it in your lap.
When I first bought the notebook I would see the battery life jump from 3:04 to 2:30 then back to 3:00 then down to 1.30 fast. I let the drained the battery life, by using the notebook until it just shut down automatically (no power left) , and recharged it. Then the battery life icon was accurate. I would say it depends on what you do.
and I bought from zipzoomfly. Other places did not have it at stock at the time, only zipzoomfly. So I ended up paying more to recieve it earlier. Palm rest do not heat. You will feel no warmth coming from it, from the right went yeah. Especially when you have it in your lap.
Screen brightness is about 88% (same as yours Latino) and both cores register around 997.5 MHz and will jump to 2.16 at times.
