Laptop Battery Times
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- beachwood
I want to know what is in your experience a realistic amount of time for a laptop battery to last? Companies make all sorts of claims but the real dirt, whats your experience?
- rasp0
mine lasts around 3 hours. g4 powerbook, about a year old
- DigitalMe0
the laptop I use is Dell Latitude and it's batteries last about 3 hours as well.
I think you can effect its unplugged life by having cd's constantly spinning, like if you're listening to music and such.
- scarabin0
on my vaio it lasts like four hours running word or something. i don't think i've ever run it dry this way.
about an hour and a half if watching a full screen dvd with audio. which is lame, since most movies are longer than that.
- beachwood0
Im in the marked for a laptop and my budget tops out at $2000. DigitalMe, you said you have a dell., whats your experience been with dell? as a business and as a laptop?
- unknown0
do a search for "dell", "inspiron", "8600" also maybe. Lots of happy dell owners here. It helps if you know exactly what you want form your laptop when configuring.
- unknown0
yup seems like dell still got it, been doing some research myself and I'm about to buy an M60.