how much battery life do you get on your Acer?

as above...
well i own the 5920G and it gives me a battery life of 2.5 hours on High Perfomance while watching movie/wlan on browsing the net... upto 3 hours while listening to Music and working with document(on high performance)...

How much battery life do you get on your Acer?

 

Aspire 3003WLMI...about 1 hour 15 mins on power saving mode when it was brand new !!

 

@John is it a 4-cell battery you got with your laptop?

i get around 2.25 hours while playing games...

 

Yes 4-cell...really poor battery life

 

My brand new 5100 (bought on Saturday) gets 100 minutes before a 10% warning comes up then immediately shuts down my computer. This, compared with the four plus hours I got on my Macbook. But hey, this is 1/3 the price of the Macbook.

 

My brand new (in August '06) 5100 got over 4 hours with wireless on.

Now 15 months later I still get about 3:30 with wifi on. Your 5100's battery is definitely faulty.

 

Faulty or they've downgraded the battery. I'm participating in another forum where others have bought this same computer, they're getting two hours or less. So, I'd say they're now selling them with four cell batteries and you've likely got a six or eight.

 

I have 5920G.3+ Hours when doing normal tasks with high performance plan

 

adinu - which battery do you have? Mine is the BATBL50L6 (4000mAh). But the "6" at the end, I'd guess a six cell battery, could yours be a BATBL508H? That would be an eight cell (4800mAh).

 

Aspire 3503WLCI = 25 minutes(2.3 years old)
Ferrari 5005WLMI = >3 hour normal tasks, in minimum mode, 4 hours. (9600mAH) I think?? my Ferrari hasn't worked for more than a month, and it is in repair, so I can't check...

 

My 14 month old 5672 gets almost 2 hrs on max performance

 

Yup, just checked the battery, it is the BATBL508H rated at 4800mAh.

I guess Acer didn't skimp on battery specs a year back.

 

5920G's battery life never ceases to amaze me.

About the same as BigSpin and Evil Eye.

 

On my 5315 I get 2hrs on high performance and power saver I think it gets 2.5hrs.

 

15 minutes...if I'm LUCKY...>.<

 

i can get about 3 hours of wireless net surfing on power saver but with the screen turned up to 25%... not bad in my opinion but then i do have a 8-cell battery.

 

Have to agree that the 5920G's battery life is amazing. With the limited testing I've done so far it's about 3 hours listening to MP3's and watching a few TV episodes in Balanced performance.

 

I guess your battery is near the end of its life...

 

Yeah, probably...this laptop is about 2-3 years old, but I haven't used the battery much. About 95% of the time i'm using it, it's plugged in. o.o; And a new battery for it is ~$135...

 

I also have 4000mAh battery on my new 5920G and it sucks. 80-90min max watching a movie with WLAN ON.

 

My 5102 has an 8 cell battery and with the wireless on and screen turned down to 0% the battery will last for around 3hrs:5min. However if I have wireless turned off the number is nearer to 3hrs:50mins. Of course when it was new I could get a few more minutes but I have ~7% battery wear on my notebook now after 13months so some loss in battery performance is expected.

 

2-3 years is the normal lifespan of a battery- regardless of how you use it.

 

Just curious, I thought every 5920G comes with 8 cell 4800mah battery?

 

Wonder if anyone has tried running a laptop off a UPS? The reason I ask is I have a two year old who'll grab the cord and send my laptop to the floor. The less than two hours run time off my Aspire isn't nearly enough, and I'd like to use it in our living room that has no safe place to plug it in. My idea is to put a UPS on the dining room table and plug the laptop into that (running off the UPS battery). I'm guessing I'd get many hours off the UPS then the 100 minutes or so off the laptop battery.

 

I have UPS with 400W power & it work 10-12 Hours without main power

 

1:11 hours on hight performance

2:20 on power saver

it's just 2 months old no doubt battery sucks

 

Sounds good, I'll give this a try. BTW, google is picking things up quickly nowadays. Did a search to see if anyone else has done this, and my question popped up three down in the search.

 

It seems that some 5920Gs have very poor batteries...unfortunately!

 

Well when this lappy was new, the battery life was ~50Min on all the power-save settings...

 

5920G comes with a 8-cell battery afaik

 

I've got an Aspire 5630 with the BATBL50L6, that I bought in April of this year... Everest reports 38% wear, and it hardly even lasts an hour now. It used to last three when it was new, but I hardly ever used the battery...

38% wear in 8 months seems excessive.

 

Were do you get that info in Everest?

 

it's under Computer / Power Management.

 

Actually considering that a typical battery lasts around 2-3 years... 38% battery wear in 8 months isn't bad.

FYI my old Inspiron barely gets more than 20 minutes after one year.