On Thursday 01 February 2007, M Harris wrote: > On Thursday 01 February 2007 23:21, Mark Panen wrote: > > I bought > > a new one on Monday and it is supposed to get up to 4 hours but i only > > get 1 hour 40 minutes. I have charged and discharged the battery a > > couple of times. > The time you are getting is 'bout normal... > > ... there are many things you can do to cut back on the current drain. > 1) reduce the cpu operating frequency (bios) if your unit allows for > this > 2) reduce the up-time of the hd drive motor (timer) > 3) reduce the brightness of the lcd, and up-time of the monitor (timer) > 4) turn of peripherals when not used... including wan, wifi, modems, etc > 5) set a suspend timer > 6) suspend instead of booting > 7) set lcd to power down (timer) instead of running a screen saver > > You may need to fully cycle (charge-discharge) your new battery several > times > before you will see optimum performance. > > I have never had more than 2.5 hours from my laptop (ThinkPad R30) > under > optimal loading. Obviously this is completely subjective.
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