Battery life???

PHATSPEED7x

PHATSPEED7x

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I do most of my work on my laptop with it pluged in. I'm Just woundering what's the average life of a laptop battery? I'm sure mine still has the OEM one, and it doesn't run the computer very long. 30mins tops sometimes. I checked newegg.com and they want $120 for a new one :eek:

It would be nice some times to take it outside this summer.
 
I was reading something on some site (CNET perhaps) where the average life of the the most recent "generation" of tested laptops was around 2:30 hours or so. I'd say that's a pretty good benchmark. Both my Averatec and HP could get about 3 hours after some tweaking.

Of course, there's no standard time though. A huge number of things can impact the time: Processor make, model, speed, processes running, brightness, wireless, types of hardwdare(wifi, bluetooth, dedicated GPU) number of cells in a batter, number of watt hours... the list goes on and on...
 
PHATSPEED7x said:
I do most of my work on my laptop with it pluged in. I'm Just woundering what's the average life of a laptop battery? I'm sure mine still has the OEM one, and it doesn't run the computer very long. 30mins tops sometimes. I checked newegg.com and they want $120 for a new one :eek:

It would be nice some times to take it outside this summer.
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NIMH/NICD, you can freeze them and make 'em come back to life. No, really!

Go read on the internet. Plenty of people doing this. Don't try this on a Lithium Ion battery, however. There is no way to revive those.

From my experience... I have frozen 2x 9V NiMH batteries for a day or two. The first time I got them, (2x battery with charger), the charge light would not even come on. After the freezing and defrosting, both of them charged. Now they are both happily working in my parents' garage door controllers :D
 
oscaryu1 said:
NIMH/NICD, you can freeze them and make 'em come back to life. No, really!

Go read on the internet. Plenty of people doing this. Don't try this on a Lithium Ion battery, however. There is no way to revive those.

From my experience... I have frozen 2x 9V NiMH batteries for a day or two. The first time I got them, (2x battery with charger), the charge light would not even come on. After the freezing and defrosting, both of them charged. Now they are both happily working in my parents' garage door controllers :D
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Nope I got a lithium Ion bat.
 
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