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    Acer 4810TZ

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Jerethi, Jul 10, 2009.

  1. Jerethi

    Jerethi Notebook Enthusiast

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    So I'm curious: what sort of battery life are folks experiencing with this laptop? I've had mine for about a week and I'm still breaking it in, but it looks like I'm hovering around 6 hours or so. And this is with the default Acer power management settings (not that I know how to change those, though).

    I'm a little underwhelmed as I thought I'd get a little closer to 8 hours - especially after reading cnet's review of the 3810, which apparently gave them over 5 hours of battery life even during video playback.
     
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    text217 Notebook Guru

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    It depends on what you do with it. If you say are just doing some word processing and that sort of stuff, you can definitely reach 8 hours if you ask me.

    That said, I haven't found any Acer Power Management program? I just only see the power options offered by Windows Vista... the manual in the software doesn't say anything about a separate program either, unless you are referring to Acer PowerSmart, but I think that just runs with your button and you can't tweak the settings.
     
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