I bet your laptop will last longer if using 6-cell battery, Twiggy. And lately I'm looking at the
mAh capacity thing if it comes to buying phone battery, because I always wanted my phone to last longer when playing videos, interneting and all, especially because my old battery was problematic for months.
A more meaningful measure would be the watt-hours (Wh), which you can get by multiplying the battery's voltage with its ampere-hours (Ah) (You get Ah by dividing mAh with 1000). Some batteries also have the Wh listed right there. The current battery is rated for 48 Wh on my laptop; the 6-cell is rated for about 67 Wh.
Agreeing with quil on Windows 8. It's just something new that some peeps need to get used to, because eventually we're gonna end up using it as a main OS sometime in the future. I'm sure we all reacted the same way when we tried out 7, right? xD Be patient with it and you'll start learning what you're reeeeeeally missing out on the new OS.
I suspect "Threshold" will make Windows 8 practically Windows 7 + Modern apps + Modern UI aesthetic, seeing as the return of the Start Menu is
hot right now in terms of rumours.
As for Windows 8, I really want a laptop that runs it, but I'm just out of money to be able to have one at the time being, but I'm so glad that I got my Nexus 7 earlier this year. Maybe soon I'll order a keyboard to go along with it so that I don't have to touch my screen to type.
Have you experimented with different software keyboards? I don't think the keyboard provided by either Google or any of the OEMs are good, in my opinion.
Speaking of software keyboards, I actually like how the Windows software keyboard since Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 automatically try to compensate for typing patterns by fudging with the invisible hit targets for keyboard keys. You can actually almost type blind on a smartphone as soon as you get the hang of it. Autocorrect being more passive than what you'd find in Android keyboards also helps a bit.