The m14x claims to have up to 5 hours of batt life. I set mine to power saver mode unplugged, the battery states only 3 hours of usage.
Is there anything I missed out at the configurations of the power plans? Or is there something else I oversee because at power saver mode, I would really want to push the system batt life as long as possible!!
Activities include causal surfing of internet/emails using iphone tethering. Playing of music and normal office processing. My build was in default with no bios tweaks or any form of overclocking.
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Whats screen brightness setting at? I have seen some people reporting 5 hours by windows standards.
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I dimmed it. 2 bars out of the max it can achieve. hmm..
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Speedy Gonzalez Xtreme Notebook Speeder!
I been browsing the web on battery for over one hour with power saving mode and almost of my lights off except for the keyboard and i have 4:12 min left with 86% battery left but i remove the HDD and replaced with an SSD i don;t know if that would make a lot difference
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are you handling the optimus correctly? are you viewing anything that might trigger your GPU to take over? Granted I don't have this laptop or anything with optimus in it. I am just going off of what i have seen so far and I'm just trying to help.
I also think being on wifi drains your battery more. -
I forgot to tweak the integrated options to maximum battery. went max power instead. lol -
On Power Saver, only wifi on (no blutooth or tethering), 1 bar above minimum, and Alien FX on, I get about 5 hours
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Yeah, correct.
Their claim of 5 hours carries the lowest possible configuration alongwith maximum power saving. -
How much would be possible to get with wifi,bt etc off, brightness to about 50%, IGP on, all lights (keyboard etc) off? I.e how you would have it if you were taking notes in class for example and wanted max battery life.
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around 3 hours - just a guess.
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Again, it was just a guess. I'm not sure how much turning wifi off would increase time. But my point was that it should be more than long enough for at least one class, probably 2 if they are standard 1hr to 1.5hr classes. -
Alright, 50% is not set in stone tho if a lower setting is workable
I'm used to wifi being a big draw on phones and laptops, so I was hoping it would make a decent difference. Optimally 1 charge would get you through the day, and that's about 4-6h of lectures @ the program I'm looking at.
Maybe that's just wishful thinking, maybe not. -
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Battery life
Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by InSidiousGG, May 6, 2011.