How long does your battery last?

Geoff

Geoff

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Over 6 hours for me :)

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I typically can get right around 2 hours on my laptop with brightness on low and wifi on. I don't think that's too bad for a laptop people complain barely gets 1 hour new; mine's 3 years old!
 
I actually got up to 6h 45m with the brightness all the way down, wi-fi on, and just having speedstep enabled. I'm hoping to break 7 hours eventually :)

This is what I like about Dell's, you have the option to get a high capacity 9 cell battery, vs the 4 or 6 cell ones you get with laptops at stores which last maybe 2-3 hours tops.
 
Mine lasts 3-4 hours. It fits my needs perfectly. If I'm studying at the library here at college for more than 3 hours...I'm in trouble.
 
[-0MEGA-];808477 said:
Over 6 hours for me :)

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That must just be idling. I want to see you use the laptop for everyday tasks for 6 hours straight. I'm willing to bet you will not get that proposed 6 hours.
 
[-0MEGA-];808570 said:
I actually got up to 6h 45m with the brightness all the way down, wi-fi on, and just having speedstep enabled. I'm hoping to break 7 hours eventually :)

This is what I like about Dell's, you have the option to get a high capacity 9 cell battery, vs the 4 or 6 cell ones you get with laptops at stores which last maybe 2-3 hours tops.
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If you really want to see how far your battery goes, try underclocking your card and turn you refresh rate all the way down.
 
MatrixEVO said:
That must just be idling. I want to see you use the laptop for everyday tasks for 6 hours straight. I'm willing to bet you will not get that proposed 6 hours.
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It is, I can still get close to 5-5.5 hours if i'm just typing a document or browsing the web.

bumblebee_tuna said:
If you really want to see how far your battery goes, try underclocking your card and turn you refresh rate all the way down.
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I can't underclock it more then speedstep does, and 60Hz is all the monitor supports.
 
mine will last up to about 2hrs. but i didnt really buy my laptop to run off of the battery. i only really bought a laptop so i could take it abroad etc.. with my... somewhere where i can plug it in and use it...
 
fatdragon said:
hey how come my laptop cant tell me how much hours are left it only tells me the percentage
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If you just unplug your laptop from the wall or just turn it on, it takes a few minutes before a time will show.

Dropkickmurphys said:
mine will last up to about 2hrs. but i didnt really buy my laptop to run off of the battery. i only really bought a laptop so i could take it abroad etc.. with my... somewhere where i can plug it in and use it...
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I bought mine for both, obviously not game mobile since when I play high end games the batter only lasts 1-1.5 hours, which I guess is decent in terms of gaming.
 
My battery says i get just over 6 hours but realisticly i get bout 5 - 6 hours depending on what im doing. I have an apple macbook :D
 
[-0MEGA-];809139 said:
It is, I can still get close to 5-5.5 hours if i'm just typing a document or browsing the web.


I can't underclock it more then speedstep does, and 60Hz is all the monitor supports.
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For XP, nVidia's Powermizer has an option to automatically underclock your video card. I don't know if that's in Vista, but earlier, I was talking about your GPU, not your CPU........
 
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