You can already get 8-hour-plus laptop battery life, with plenty more options than just the mentioned Y570. This is at all ranges of size from 12" to 15". Wak

You can already get 8-hour-plus laptop battery life, with plenty more options than just the mentioned Y570. This is at all ranges of size from 12" to 15". Wake-up from sleep is easily under 4-5 seconds, the cooling fans are not obnoxious. Better reasons this is the worst time to get a laptop: hard drive shortages, the coming Ivy Bridge laptops, and of course, almost everything has already moved over to 16:9 screens :)