Personally, I get excited when my laptops battery breaks the two-hour barrier. Anything above five just seems like the realm of science fiction. HP, for its part, announced today that it had broken a full day on a single battery charge.

The company's new EliteBook 6930p managed to wrack up an unheard of 24 hours of battery life, when outfitted with an ultra-capacity battery--an optional feature for the notebook.

The company chalked the long life, in part, up to low energy components like a solid state drive and an Illumi-lite LED.