[Tebore]

I've been reading around and seeing how Intel is really screwing up the mobile platform because with each iteration it gets more power hungry. Eg Centrino Pro consumes up to 30% more power than the comparable Centrino duo platform. Vista also doesn't help in this battle due to the Aero interface and poor power handling. I want to see how well things are scaling. Post your specs, Battery cell size, battery life and operating system.

My laptop is a Lenovo T60P with WinXP pro.
It's got a T2500, FireGL V5200 1GB RAM and a 100gig 7200RPM HDD.
14.1 LCD (1400x1050).

I get about 5:40 with the 9 cell, settings on max battery life and just surfing around with WiFi on.

[custom90gt]

That seems like a good amount of time. My msi notebook would get around 3 hrs of dvd time on a 6-cell battery.
I have no idea what the everex in my sig would get, defiantly not good, lol.
I thought the T60P used Santa Rosa?

[Burninate]

I have the Dell D420 in my sig. I'm not sure about the processor number, buts a core duo 1.2Ghz. It's got a 6 cell battery and XP SP2. At medium backlight with the wi-fi and blue tooth off and doing word processing/excel and what not I can get about 5:30 hours out of it. With full brightness and wi-fi on playing WoW, I get somewhere in the neighborhood of 3:15 to 3:30 from a full charge and not quite 4 hours just surfing the net with WiFi on. The brightness level and WiFi make a HUGE difference on the bettery life.

[Skeith]

About 5 1/2 hours, 9cell battery

Gets about 2hour full power.

[Springbok]

1 hour I don't bother carrying a battery anymore. (lappy in my sig)

[Valk]

My hp tablet gets around 3 hrs of anime off on my viewsonic TV, and 6ish if Im taking notes in class, wifi off.
filling in this forum post, it reports 3:33 left and ive been Up here 45 odd minutes already.
Also depends if in inking or not. the wacom will use more cpu than just typing. So, ld say an average of 4 hours. not bad for a secondhand machine and battery.

TC 4200, Dothan 740, 1.5gb,6 cell battery

[watchthisspace]

Compa Presario 700, 1.2ghz duron, 256mb ram, s3 16onboard, xp home


About 30min when MSNing.

[Tebore]

The T61 Thinkpad uses Santa Rosa the T60P just uses Napa. It's not so bad but having a 12pipe X1600/FGL V5200 makes the 14 incher hot hot hot.

Man the Sager 9860 is a sexy beast. I love those things I one day would like to get one to replace my desktop and keep a TP as a mobile notebook.

[freakdiablo]

I had a T40, 1.5ghz PM, 1gb ddr266, ATI Radeon 7500 @ 320gpu, 260ram
1 hour 30 minutes doing pretty much anything

T23, 1.13ghz PIII, 768mb sdram, S3 Prosavage ITX @ stock speed
battery time unknown, its probably dieing because it never goes above 70% plugged in

[hafa]

Toshiba M400, core 2 duo 5600, 2GB RAM, 100GB 7200RPM drive, 6-cell/4000 mAh battery, Vista Business.

5.5 hours, wi-fi on surfing/office, etc.
3.5 hours running Adobe CS3 suite/heavy multitasking, lots of HDD I/O

[Tebore]

For the guys who posted their battery life do you guys use any utilities like RM Clock, NHC, ATI power playm etc? I noticed that using RMClock that my idle power drops much more than without and I also use TPFan Control to control my fans, using that reduces another 2 watts of power usage by dropping the fan speed.

[Murdochs_mad]

I have a compal CL50 - Pent M 1.4, 512 ram, 40gb hd, get about 4 1/2 hours just surfing with the wifi on and most the power settings disabled, if it goes into standby it'll go pretty much a day and a bit.

Old RM Pent 1 (this thing is arcaic) 256 ram 20gb hd does bout 2 hours.

[hafa]

Originally Posted by Tebore

For the guys who posted their battery life do you guys use any utilities like RM Clock, NHC, ATI power playm etc? I noticed that using RMClock that my idle power drops much more than without and I also use TPFan Control to control my fans, using that reduces another 2 watts of power usage by dropping the fan speed.

No utilities here...

[ozzlo]

Dell xps 1210

12" screen
Core 2 duo 1.86ghz
1 GB ram
7200 RPM HD
integrated intel grafix
9 cell battery


11.5 hours maximum battery life (wordprocessing only, wifi off, screen on dimmest setting, notebook hardware control running processor at minimum voltage and speed)

9 hours battery life (internet surfing/ listening to mp3's screen brightness half)

4.5 hours gaming

[aaa]

IBM T40 - PM1.5 - 9 cell - undervolted - 6:20 w/wifi

[David_N]

Compaq V2000 as seen in sig, 6 Cell battey (possibly 8, but 6 iirc), I get about an hour and a half with full brightness with OpenOffice running, wireless disabled.

I got about 2.75 hours when I was running Ubuntu with the same setup, however I couldn't get the wireless to work, hence reverting to Windows.

[fldrice]

My HP tc4200 gets about 4.5hrs of real-world usage and about 5-6hrs of usage in tablet mode off of its 6-cell battery.

[SniperXX]

Dell Inspiron 1501 - Turion 64x2 (TL-60), 2GB, 80 GB (5400rpm), 9cell batt, 17" screen, 256mb ATI x1600 Express 1150, and win xp SP2.

I get 6hr and 50min on battery with wifi on surfing the web. I havent messed with the screen brightness or anything yet.

[Tebore]

Originally Posted by SniperXX

Dell Inspiron 1501 - Turion 64x2 (TL-60), 2GB, 80 GB (5400rpm), 9cell batt, 17" screen, 256mb ATI x1600 Express 1150, and win xp SP2.

I get 6hr and 50min on battery with wifi on surfing the web. I havent messed with the screen brightness or anything yet.

Impressive for a laptop that's not using a P-M and using Descrete Gfx. Actually it's damn impressive for a laptop.

[CaptnBackfire87]

Sony Vaio 1.66 GHZ centrino duo. I get about 55 minutes on battery if its running full power(folding@home), and can get up to 4 hours of web-surfing, instant messaging if i put it on "power save" mode, or whatever its called.