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    How much battery life? M11x R2 i7 users only (not i5)

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Benchmade 42, Jan 15, 2011.

  1. Benchmade 42

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    Having just wifi and continous web surfing/ Microsoft Office Word/Excel and some light music playing from 100% to 0% (No gaming or hd videos). How many hours?

    Thanks
     
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    It really depends on the settings of the battery like high or battery saving
    on high doing that with the lights on i get about 4
    the max life i was able to get was 5.30 with no lights and music playing nonstop with min brightness
     
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    When you say min brightness do you mean 10-20% only or it is at least 50-60% out of 100%? When you got the 5.30 hours was ur wifi on the whole time?

    Basically I just want it to last 5 hours at least continuously while editing Microsoft Word/Excel and non stop surfing over wifi with light music playing here and there.
     
    Benchmade 42, Jan 15, 2011
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    it should get close to that with the right settings
    i think the brightness was all the way down
     
    LockOn, Jan 15, 2011
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    Unfortunately even with the help of this forum i haven't gotten insane battery life with my M11x R2. I would say the most I've gotten would be a little more than 6 hours brightness all the way down, wifi disabled, antivirus disabled. basically just taking notes and playing minesweeper. I would say normally i average about 4:30 to 5 hours. Depending on what I'm doing. There are a few threads that can help u optimize your R2 to be more efficient.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...ry-life-what-you-getting-how-make-better.html

    Try to get batterybar pro it is a better indicator because it shows the usage being expended at a given time.

    Osiris Development - BatteryBar, the most accurate battery meter for Windows
     
    tulron41, Jan 15, 2011
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  6. TitanGod

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    with wifi on & browsing, brightness all the way down, and no back-lighting effects, i get 6+ hours on a full charge. (power setting balanced)

    I don't know if this makes any difference but I do have an SSD instead of a regular hard drive which uses more energy.
     
    TitanGod, Jan 15, 2011
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    I regularly get 4-5 hours out of mine.
     
    WildKarrde, Jan 16, 2011
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    When just on idle, I noticed that I get around 6 hours but of course I won't be turning on my laptop and not using it !

    The below are my APPROXIMATE (plus or minus 20 minutes) battery lives in certain conditions:

    Battery Life: ~5 hours and 20 minutes
    - Balanced power plan
    - Screen brightness two bars
    - AlienFX ON
    - Wifi ON
    - avast! ON
    * Casual surfing on the net + typing notes + Windows Live Messenger*

    Battery Life: ~5 hours and 40 minutes
    - Balanced power plan
    - Screen brightness two bars
    - AlienFX OFF
    - Wifi ON
    - avast! ON
    * Casual surfing on the net + typing notes + Windows Live Messenger*

    Battery Life: 6 hours +
    - Balanced power plan
    - Screen brightness two bars
    - AlienFX OFF
    - Wifi ON
    - avast! ON
    *Do nothing*
     
    mohaa7, Jan 16, 2011
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    6 hours no wifi brightness on low
    5 hours with wifi brightness on low-med
    4 with wifi hd video
    3 1/2 gaming
     
    MasivB, Jan 17, 2011
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    That's great!
     
    ECKS, Jan 17, 2011
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    3 1/2 on gaming?!?!

    Well I have my laptop O/Ced to 150 Mhz and when I play WoW i only get 1 1/2 hours of gaming lol.

    When I play a less intensive game like minecraft or supermeatboy i get like 2+ hrs of gaming.
     
    TitanGod, Jan 17, 2011
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    Right now with brightness off, wifi on, firefox open, openoffice open, and nothing else my batter life is about 6 hours and a half.
     
    Marxus, Jan 17, 2011
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    2 hours on power-saver profile, without AlienFX >.<
    *cries*
     
    DivineAura, Jan 18, 2011
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    Oblivion, Jan 18, 2011
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