Miscellaneous laptop discussions : Poll: On average, how long does your laptop battery last?
- 3/20/09 2:50 PM
Poll: On average, how long does your laptop battery last?
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 3/20/09 2:50 PM
On average, how long does your laptop battery last?
-- Less than 1 hour (Which model laptop and what type of battery?)
-- Between 1 and 2 hours.(Which model laptop and what type of battery?)
-- Between 2 and 3 hours. (Which model laptop and what type of battery?)
-- Between 3 and 4 hours. (Which model laptop and what type of battery?)
-- Between 4 and 5 hours. (Which model laptop and what type of battery?)
-- I don't own a laptop.
Poll: On average, how long does your laptop battery last?
by huizhe2 - 3/20/09 7:02 PM In reply to: Poll: On average, how long does your laptop battery last? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have an Asus Eee PC 1000H (Win XP Home Chinese, 80-GB HDD, 2 GB RAM, Intel Atom 270 CPU; a netbook, not really a laptop) with two batteries. The stock battery -- a 6-cell -- lasts about 3 hours, but the 9-cell 3rd-party upgrade that I bought lasts about 4. Both are Li-ion. I could increase the life of the battery by reducing the brightness of my LCD screen, but that makes viewing the screen too difficult. This is fine for my purposes. I use it only when I'm not at home at my desktop. I often go out to a local coffee shop to get away from my home office, which I practically live in 7 days and nights per week (the price one often has to pay for being a self-employed manuscript editor). I always carry two batteries in my backpack.
about an hour for me.
by psaulm119 - 3/20/09 7:18 PM In reply to: Poll: On average, how long does your laptop battery last? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It is about an hour. I have a Dell Inspiron 1501--almost 2 years old. I really don't know what battery it is.
Its not really a problem, because I use it a lot at home; when I travel with it more than 30 minutes I just shut it down. But at home I leave it plugged in 24/7.
When I first bought it, I charged it to 100%, and then drained it to 5% before recharging. I was under the impression that this was better. This is what I was told earlier, but I believe these lithium batteries are the exact opposite--you should keep them charged and not drain them. Perhaps that is why the battery took a turn for the worse, but since I've kept it plugged in 24/7 its stayed at around 1 hour.
about an hour for me
by angelo212 - 3/20/09 8:28 PM In reply to: about an hour for me. by psaulm119From what I just read on c-net your problem is because you keep your computer pluged in 24-7.
Five hours and it only cost me $300
by Crash2100 - 3/20/09 7:23 PM In reply to: Poll: On average, how long does your laptop battery last? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
A couple weeks ago, I bought a refurbished "Lenovo ThinkPad T42" laptop from eCOST.com for only $289. From my experience so far, the laptop gets around 5 Hours of battery life. The only downside to it that I have found is that the hard drive is a small 40GB, but other than that, it looks like it will be a great laptop.
It gets even better
by efrimann - 3/22/09 4:18 AM In reply to: Five hours and it only cost me $300 by Crash2100If you install Notebook Hardware Control and clock down the processor a little bit, you'll get much more battery time. If you mostly use Office and such, it doesn't make any difference.
Battery Life on mine
by smithcomputer - 3/20/09 7:26 PM In reply to: Poll: On average, how long does your laptop battery last? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
my battery life is about 2 hours on a Compaq Presario F769WM with 2 Gb of RAM and a 150 Gb Hard drive.
I did have an Acer 3502 WLCi that only had about a 30 minute battery life and it was only running 512 Mb of RAM and a 60 Gb hard drive
Toshiba Satellite L305-S5921
by jmarkross - 3/20/09 7:50 PM In reply to: Poll: On average, how long does your laptop battery last? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I bought this laptop a few months ago for $449 from Newegg....performs great and I get AT LEAST 3 hours....closer to 4 hours battery time. I DO NOT play games at all, and I set the screen to a lower brightness to save power. Normal computing seems to make all the difference. Just as in price (you get ROYALLY SCREWED to get the best game-performing laptops), if you are a gamer you have to pay A LOT for the capability--though it is not technologically justified--and for everyday "plain folks" computer use you can get all you want for a very good price. Caveat emptor.
Lasts a while
by ESUNintel - 3/20/09 9:50 PM In reply to: Poll: On average, how long does your laptop battery last? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It depends which laptop I'm using, and how I use it. My MacBook Air seems to last about 3.5 hours most of the time, while my Vaio P (with the extended battery) lasts about 5.5 hours if I dim the LCD halfway.
Lithium-Ion Batteries
by frederick santos - 3/20/09 11:55 PM In reply to: Poll: On average, how long does your laptop battery last? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
MSI VR610, with Lithium-Ion Battery, lasts 2hrs and 45 minutes before warning
Compaq Presario 1200Z
by sbill - 3/21/09 2:25 AM In reply to: Poll: On average, how long does your laptop battery last? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I still use a Compaq Presario 1200Z with the AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz processor. This model came out in 2001. It's now on the third battery, which was purchased in 2008. I get close to 3 hours of continuous use on a charge, which is pretty good by today's standards.
3 to 4 hours
by rkharvey1954 - 3/21/09 3:37 AM In reply to: Poll: On average, how long does your laptop battery last? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have a MacBook and it is close to 2 years old. The battery lasts on average 3.5 hours. If I am playing CD's continuously it only lasts about 1.5 hours. I have never removed it from the computer, but will do so after reading your superb post!
Re: Poll: On average, how long does your laptop battery last
by Scriber434 - 3/21/09 7:11 AM In reply to: Poll: On average, how long does your laptop battery last? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Between 1-2 hours, depending on my power settings
Re: Poll
by Scriber434 - 3/21/09 7:18 AM In reply to: Re: Poll: On average, how long does your laptop battery last by Scriber434I've got an Acer Aspire 5313 w/six cell lithium ion battery. Usually, I connect it to the adapter, especially if I have files to download. Only use my battery for "emergencies."
4-5 hrs
by fwsherl - 3/21/09 10:24 AM In reply to: Poll: On average, how long does your laptop battery last? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have a MSI WIND U100 6cell L-ion. If I am simply browsing, I can get more. I just spent 3 months traveling and took thousands of pictures that I saved and edited on this machine.
| Forum legend: | |
 |
Locked thread |
 |
Moderator |
 |
CNET staff |
 |
Samsung staff |
 |
Norton Authorized Support team |
 |
AVG staff |
 |
Windows Outreach team |
 |
Dell staff |
 |
Intel staff |
