Battery Life w/ Dedicated GFX *M1330*

What type of battery life should I expect with the M1330 with a dedicated graphics card? Lets say... during Surfing web, full brightness, and writing papers?

 

and what would it be opposed to intergrated?

 

This is just to funny to let alone they are not even in production and you ask this well it should be about the same becuase the GPU clocks downs and does not take up more power then it needs unless you are playing games

 

Battery life will be noticeably better with the Intel integrated graphics vs the dedicated graphics. By how much I can't say though. If you will not be playing GPU intensive games then go for the integrated graphics. The latest Intel integrated is pretty decent.

 

i dont remeber but it was posted on another laptop with almost the same specs as the m1330 there would be about a 7-10 minute loss of battery for the discrete video card

 

I'm very interested about this issue too. Maybe someone knows what is the difference in battery life between M1210's Go7400 and GMA for comparsion?
I really doubt about 10 minutes, i think it will be between 30 and 60 minutes with 6cell battery.

 

i will have to find the post where it was...

 

If you can... I would appreciate that. I'm still not decided which gfx to chose.

 

Well if you've got results posted by someone then that would be cool but all the tests I've seen on laptops with integrated vs dedicated it's more like 30-60+ minutes difference. Even a 7200rpm vs 5400rpm hard drive can make a 10+ minute difference in battery life. The graphics card is the most power hungry device in a laptop.

 

I honestly doubt the graphics card would influence battery power that much unless it was being stressed constantly, which it won't be in your case.

 

On a Lenovo T61, identical setups between the X3100 and Quadro 140M (same chip) yields more than 1-hour difference on 6-cell. Lenovo's own literature claims discrete = 3.8hr, integrated = 5.7hr.

While it's a joke to assume you'd get nearly 6 hours of battery life on a 6-cell battery, real-world 'light usage" reports claim less than 3 hours with the nvidia, and almost 4 with with integrated. Sounds safe to assume the loss is significant.

 

but you all have to remember that vista and AREO uses lots of 3d power to run on battery you turn this off you get about 25% less battery use so it seems on my older laptop and an alien ware

 

I think i will take the integrated gfx. I'm fine with some light gaming like GTA:SA and other good older games. 30-60 minutes of battery life is worth it!

 

Well, dell claims 7 hours at no load, with the integrated graphics and 9 cell.. Taking that with a pinch of salt, let's say it'd run out at around 5 hours and a half... Andrew's tests put the no load, dedicated graphics 9 cell battery life at 4:45... That's about the only concrete data we have so far