how long can your laptop batteries last for?

fatdragon

fatdragon

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how long can your laptop batteries last for also tells us what model is your laptop
Eg: hp pavillion dv6000 and it last for 3 hours
 
Hello,

I use an HP nx7300 (RU452ET) Notebook

It originally came with a 6-cell battery rated 10.8v 4000mAh providing 43Wh. With wireless on, brightness up, and when surfing the net, it gave around 2 hours 20 minutes. Okay I guess, but not excellent.

Because this isn't long enough for me, I purchased an 8-cell battery for £50 from eBay, rated 14.4v 4800mAh providing 69Wh. With wireless on, brightness up, and when surfing the net, I can get 3 hours 45 minutes runtime using the 8-cell battery, and over 4 hours with wireless off and brightness down. Much better.

I'll be upgrading the Celeron M 430 processor to a Core Duo T2400 next week. It will be interesting to see the difference it will make.
 
Gateway CX2610 (notebook) and 4h plus if LED's turned off and screen brightness turned down. I also keep wireless off if not in use.
 
Averatec 3270 - ~ 2.5-3 hours with wifi enabled, lowest screen brightness, and running around 800MHz. It's final for casual surfing...

It's got some age on it, coming around 2 years now. *knock on wood* that it'll keep on lasting around this long ;) I'm not quite ready to purchase a new one.
 
The_Other_One said:
Averatec 3270 - ~ 2.5-3 hours with wifi enabled, lowest screen brightness, and running around 800MHz. It's final for casual surfing...

It's got some age on it, coming around 2 years now. *knock on wood* that it'll keep on lasting around this long ;) I'm not quite ready to purchase a new one.
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Hey i've got an averatec too :)

I didn't think anyone else on a computer forum would have such a budget laptop :)

What do you think of yours? I think mine's great for the price!

Zero problems so far.
 
im loking at it right now....98% battery life.....29 minutes remaining.....its an hp zd8000....anyone know how many cells this is and where i can get a better one cause its really pissing me off the shitty battery life
 
how old is it?

the cycles get shorter and shorter with age

check tigerdirect, they sell laptop batteries

or you can get an external laptop battery pack that's 10x better
 
Name is in my sig.

and about 3 hours... the meter changes alot.. but off the top of my head, it lasted about 3 hours.
 
depends on what im doing. 4 hours can be pretty easy to get out of it. vista doesn't show "time remaining" on the icon tho.

heck, i can play WOW for a good hour and a half on the battery. screen is always at 40% on battery then 100% when plugged in.
 
the thing is a year and a half old...it never had great batteery life....only like just under an hour when it was brand new...but yeah its gotten like cut in half the battery life now....how much do you think an external battery is....and how big is it? :S
 
I have a toshiba satellite bought it about 2 years ago new, it never lasted more then 1 hour. Pretty shitty, so I'll be upgrading this summer to a laptop and will mainly look at battery working time.
 
56000 Hours.... I had something mess up last year and it actually said that. That would have lasted ~6.5 years. Ussualy my laptop(Dell Latitude D610) only has 1.5 hours.
 
i think i get about 2.75 hours, in. if i am in media mode (windows not booted) and watching medea on my comp i get about 3.5 .

comp is in the sig
 
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