Battery Life

kremedios

kremedios

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I have a Sony Vaio BX294VP:

1.73ghz Pentium M processor
512mb ram
100gb 5200rpm Hdd
Intel GMA 915 Intergrated graphics with 128mb

Its running XP Pro. However, i only get 1.5hrs of battery life. This is with the brightness set on medium. However, i'm wondering, would this increase if I install another operating system and delete XP, such as Ubuntu Linux??

thanks :(
 
kremedios said:
I have a Sony Vaio BX294VP:

1.73ghz Pentium M processor
512mb ram
100gb 5200rpm Hdd
Intel GMA 915 Intergrated graphics with 128mb

Its running XP Pro. However, i only get 1.5hrs of battery life. This is with the brightness set on medium. However, i'm wondering, would this increase if I install another operating system and delete XP, such as Ubuntu Linux??

thanks :(
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Bumpp
 
Come on, it's only been an hour. I doubt you'd see a difference between XP and Ubuntu power-wise. If it's not a new laptop you could try to re-condition the battery by fully discharging it (go to the BIOS setup so it doesn't automatically power down and doesn't damage any files when it dies) then recharge it, ideally a full charge while powered down. If the battery life doesn't improve at all after 4 or 5 goes then the problem is either elsewhere or an uncureable battery.
 
Is the laptop brand new?

My Dell is pretty much identical in spec and I can get 4.5 hours from the battery.

When on the battery I have screen brightness on lowest setting (biggest drain on battery) and also use a program to lock the CPU speed at 800MHz. I don't do CPU intensive stuff on my laptop so 800MHz is more that sufficient for browsing, office, etc.
 
GuruJockStrap said:
Is the laptop brand new?

My Dell is pretty much identical in spec and I can get 4.5 hours from the battery.

When on the battery I have screen brightness on lowest setting (biggest drain on battery) and also use a program to lock the CPU speed at 800MHz. I don't do CPU intensive stuff on my laptop so 800MHz is more that sufficient for browsing, office, etc.
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Its 6 months old. But the maximum I had when i bought it in Oct 06 was 2 hours.
 
GuruJockStrap said:
Is the laptop brand new?

My Dell is pretty much identical in spec and I can get 4.5 hours from the battery.

When on the battery I have screen brightness on lowest setting (biggest drain on battery) and also use a program to lock the CPU speed at 800MHz. I don't do CPU intensive stuff on my laptop so 800MHz is more that sufficient for browsing, office, etc.
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my dell is simular (brand new) in specs also. inspirion 6400 but with 1gig ram and slighter newer version graphics of the OP.

what the poster seems to leave out is the cell capacity of his laptop battery.
mine is 6 cell and kicks off at 4.5 hours with brightness full up but more like 3 hours in real world terms, watching a dvd and surfing ect.
To the OP what is your battery cell size?
 
movingtables said:
my dell is simular (brand new) in specs also. inspirion 6400 but with 1gig ram and slighter newer version graphics of the OP.

what the poster seems to leave out is the cell capacity of his laptop battery.
mine is 6 cell and kicks off at 4.5 hours with brightness full up but more like 3 hours in real world terms, watching a dvd and surfing ect.
To the OP what is your battery cell size?
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6 cell.
 
kremedios said:
Would switching to vista further lower my battery life?
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not sure really. its ment to be more hungry for resorces so who knows.
I got this new lappy with xp as vista is an other nightmare im not personaly prepeared to take on board yet. maybe when its 24 months old.
 
Do you have wireless on/off? with my laptop having the wireless on when on battery pretty much halves battery life...
 
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