M4700 extremely slow when running on battery

This is just the economy vs the sports setting on your car.

Probably because you've never had a machine withe the power and configuration of your current model. What I think is that you're discovering how they get it to do (extended battery life, etc.) what it does.

Now you're stressing OP. These type of quandaries can cause you to lose your hair. Something like that is to be expected.

BTW, what method are you using to determine the lag? And you should also keep in mind that configuration can effect a machines operation as well. So wouldn't that make your comparative tests invalid?

 

Check cpu frequency with some monitor program or intel XTU.

I think it is just internal cpu throttling when on battery, throttlestop or XTU should solve it.

 

Hmm, care to elaborate here?

Okay, to be fair, I could deal with the 10 second lag thing; I think I was getting a bit too ODD on that one. Hahaha

Anyways, my issue is that when I transfer to the battery power from the wall charger power (when the computer was originally turned on on the wall charger power), the web browser would take over 2 mins to turn on and when I am typing on word 2013, the word cursor would not keep up with my typing speed and the words would come out as a group. You would know it was lagging, it is really not usable.

However, I can get around this by turning off the computer and restarting the computer when I transfer over to the battery power, then the computer is good.

All in all, I am just trying to figure out why the computer needs to be restarted when I take the plug out to transfer to the battery, maybe some kind of resetting? It is a bit annoying since I do not turn off my computer during the day, and usually just put it to sleep.

 

Of course. Continued pressure from consumer to get better battery life out of their systems. One simple way for manufactures to do that is to throttle down your system.

The above was an analogy using cars which do the same thing to simulate extended fuel economy rating.

I can't answer that. But I suspect your computer may additionally be performing some tasks that could add to your slow down. You may want to check into that as well.

As for your comparison, you'd need a side by side of identical machines to tell that for sure. That's the biggest problem I see with your request.

 

No idea why you need another machine side by side when modern computer have dozen of sensors saying what exactly is going on.