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    What is your battery life on the XPS-15, 9530, with 91WH battery?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by marc515, Nov 16, 2014.

  1. marc515

    marc515 Notebook Consultant

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    How much battery life do you guys with the XPS-15 (9530), with the 91WH battery?

    I just interested to see how close it comes to the advertised 10 hours of battery life.

    Thank you
     
    marc515, Nov 16, 2014
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    borse2008 Notebook Consultant

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    Never had 10hrs from it.
     
    borse2008, Nov 18, 2014
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    marc515 Notebook Consultant

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    OK, my question was: How much battery life do you guys with the XPS-15 (9530), with the 91WH battery?
     
    marc515, Nov 21, 2014
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    Ashers Notebook Evangelist

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    If I don't push it hard: browsing, office, etc., with mid-low brightness, it hovers around 10-11W, so I can get about 8 hours from it. I would say 6-7 hours is realistic.
     
    Ashers, Nov 25, 2014
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    Thanks; that's pretty good, and on par with a MacBook.
     
    marc515, Nov 28, 2014
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    I get around 6 hours. I watch Youtube videos, video steams, browsing and simple reading (from chrome, Office Word and Powerpoint and pdf) with brightness level set at 60%. I usually have around 20 tabs open with Google Chrome.

    I have Intel Display Power Saving Technology enabled (it's enabled by default).

    Hope this helps.
     
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    YesManQ8, Nov 28, 2014
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    In Windows 8.1, you can open an admin command prompt and run a battery report with:

    powercfg /batteryreport

    It'll create an html file that shows usage stats and, at the bottom, an estimated battery life based on those stats. Mine shows an average of 7:47 since 1/1/15. Not sure why the first entry is so jacked up. Makes it so that you have to manually calculate the life since install. I just changed my power plan, so I'll see if it helps.

    batlife.png

    It would be interesting to see others output. If anyone's is a lot higher, maybe they could share there power settings.
     
    jcato, Jan 23, 2015
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