M11x Battery Remaining Time keeps changing

in regards to the little battery icon at the bottom right of the screen, it would always change.. as in it goes up and down ... up and down.. up and down./.. hella wierd!!!

at first boot up it would say there is 4 hrs 50 mins left then it might drop to 3 hrs or so... then back up to 4 hrs.., then
then after a while it will say 5 hrs left
and then 6hrs 30 mins left.
7 hrs 10 mins left.
then back to 6 hrs... etc..

kinda gets frustrating.. its not even reliable at all..

right now its sittin on 6 hrs 03 mins...
about 5 minutes ago it was sitting on 4 hrs 50mins... .

PS: What's the highest remaining hrs you guys have seen on your m11x?

 

The Windows battery indicator is at best a guess by Windows by taking into account the battery charge, what SpeedStepping/voltage you are currently on, and of course switching between the IGP and discrete graphics, and etc.

If you do not run your cpu on OC then you will be seeing it fluctuate alot because of it switching between speedstepping and the voltages associated with those. If you OC your CPU, it disables the speedstepping and you don't see so much fluctuating.

 

Yeah I have mine OCed and here are the possible estimates the system could give me all at one session on battery:

-At idle
-Watching a movie
-Downloading something
-Installing something
-Web surfing
-Any other activity that causes more CPU utilization, even for a minute or two. The estimates usually go back to normal after the stress is over though.

so it could go

-Idle (6hrs) to
-Watching movie for 10 minutes (4hrs) to
-Web surfing with movie off (5hrs 48min) to
-Idle (5hrs 55min) etc etc

So it judges based on your current situation and system use. Make sense?

 

oh i seee !!! makes sense now !!! =))) Thanks guys.