Next month, Hewlett-Packard will be releasing a laptop that can run for twenty-four hours on a high-capacity battery, but only if it is also running the Windows XP operating system. The notebook is said to be a special configuration of the company’s EliteBook 6930p model, which is part of a line aimed at businesses.

In order to obtain this outstanding battery performance, the laptop will have to run on Microsoft’s Windows XP, since the company’s most recent version of the Windows operating system, Vista, has some power-draining features. Moreover, it will be fitted with HP's Illumi-Lite LED display instead of an LCD screen, which is said to add four more hours to a battery’s life and will also use an Intel Solid-State Drive, which is reported to make batteries last 7% longer than they would if information were to be stored on a rotating magnetic disk.

Up to now, Hewlett-Packard has yet to give out information concerning the price of the twenty-four hour battery life configuration of the notebook. The basic version costs $1,199 and the optional 12-cell ultra-capacity battery that can boost the laptop’s battery time by ten hours is priced at $189. Once launched, the new laptop will have to compete with Dell’s Latitude E6400, which hit the market in August this year and can run nineteen hours on a single battery charge.

Hewlett-Packard Incorporated is currently the largest worldwide seller of personal computers and also the fifth largest software company, with a reported revenue of $104 billion last year.