I think I might have an anwer.
I'm starting the video test...I was going to do them both at max brightness and I noticed that the Toshiba's screen is considerably brighter than that of the ASUS. To get them to the same brightness, I had to lower the Tosh's setting to about 65%. So if you lower both to 65% as the reviewers did, the Toshiba's screen will be using a lot more juice and will be a lot brighter. Since the LCD panel is one of the biggest power hogs on a laptop, that could explain the discrepancy in battery life.
To make the test fair, I am going to run the ASUS at full brightness and the Tosh at 65%, which would make them the same in terms of percieved brightness.
I will also have to lower the volume of the ASUS to match the Toshiba's, since the ASUS has much better (and louder) speakers.
I'll let you know how it turns out. Right now they are both charging...I want to make sure they are at 100% before I start. I plan to loop a divx movie until they die.
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