My HP has comparable battery life to most Apple notebooks.
It is far from flimsy. 4 GB RAM, 320 GB Hard Drive. Does everything I need it to do.
Your HP gives you 7 hours of battery life? I owned an HP with 4 GB RAM and a 320 GB HD, it was flimsy as hell, the screen was nowhere near the quality of my MacBook, and the battery would last 3 hours tops. The actual performance on 7 was just fine, but the quality was not there. Bought it from Circuit City, maybe those were of a lesser quality than ones you can order direct from HP, but the one I had was not a quality feeling PC.
