Weight and Battery Life of W3V

Anyone know what the weight of this notebook will be with the standard default battery?

In addition what is the best estimate of battery life with the standard default battery?

 

4.41 pounds is the official weight.... they claim this is with the 4 cell standard battery and with the travelers drawer in place. Now, if the W3 has a travelers drawer (much like the M1/M2/M3/M6), then most likely it's secondary battery may come in the form of an optical bay battery (this is the first I'm reading this stuff off). If that's the case, it's most likely closer to 5 pounds with the optical drive in place.

Since it'll have a similiar configuration as the V6, and since it's batteries are made of the same type of li-ion cells..... If the W3 comes with a 4 cell and the V6 has an 8 cell, you're best bet is about 1/2 the battery life. Since I'm getting about 3 hours of heavy use on the V6, I'd most likely say I'd get an hour and half of HEAVY use on the W3 with that battery.
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EDIT- I just read there is a 4 cell and an 8 cell battery.. The 8 cell isn't supposed to add that much weight.. just like the 4 to 8 cell in the V6 only added a 1/4 pound.. Now.. also, there will be an option for a 6 cell battery for the optical bay. Can you imagine this? A notebook with basically a 14 cell battery. And you guys thought the 9 cell battery for the S5/M5 provided a lot of life....
The way I look at it... I'd say at worst, I'm getting 22.5 minutes per cell on the V6 / M6 / W1..... With that said, with 14 battery cells... I'd get 315 minutes or 5 hours and 15 minutes of heavy use. This making sense?
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But also, I'm not sure what battery we'll be getting. I'm not even 100% sure that Asus made a bigger battery that will fit in that hinge holder the W3 has. If they did.... much like the W5 and V6 shows... Asus will probably not be ordering the smallest battery...... Although it works with the S5 (because they want it as light as possible).. the W3 and other new notebooks are going to be meant for some heavy working and therefore battery is more important than weight.

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I know I sort of rambled there..... but I wanted to make clear those numbers I came up with were based on the heaviest use I could muster up and loading this up with it's largest battery and 2nd battery.

Under the first test I figured the V6 (which will basically be indentical inside to the W3) will get a minimum of 22.5 minutes of life per cell under heavy use. This is figuring 3 hours of life for the 8 cell battery. Now, 4 hours of internet, email, word processing, would be considered "normal" use... and would give about 30 minutes per cell. With the lcd turned low, and every powersaving feature turned on..... the V6 and W1 can get 5 hours of use, which shouldn't be all that different in the W3. If that's the case, you'd have 37.5 minutes of life per cell or 8 hours and 45 minutes with all of the batteries in place.

If we figure that 14 cells are the maximum this computer can hold (8 cell extended battery and 6 cell optical bay battery), then it's safe to figure the following:


MAXIMUM battery life:

5 hours and 15 minutes of hardcore gaming and 3d rendering...

7 hours of "normal use"

8 hours and 45 minutes at maximum powersaving settings.

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the w3v with 8cell battery, is that a confirmed 5.1lb ?
there's many sites who still quote 4.5lb/2kg and list the 8cell battery as standard

could anyone give confirmation how much the 8cell adds in comparison to the official 2.5kg/4.5lb spec (im assuming it is using the 4cell/6cell in the official spec?)

 

Look around on some of the W3V discussion, but several of us have weighed the W3V and with the optical drive and 8 cell it's a shade over 5.5lbs. Meijern, I think, has some measurements of just the optical drive which you could use to substract from the total to get a comparison of specs versus shipped product.



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Asus' official specs showed 4.6 pounds with the standard battery and travelers drawer. The US decided to go with the double capacity battery. The battery was supposed to add a 1/4 pound.... putting the weight at about 4.85 pounds. The optical drives usually don't weight more than 1/2 pound, as I don't think they have changed much in the last few years... so if people are getting 5.5 pounds, I think the double capacity battery may be weighing a little more than they thought.

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C'mon, don't hang to what the official Asus specs say.... We all know we can't really trust Asus' specs.... Didn't you mention that you always go through the tech specs from Asus with a comb before posting info on your own site?

Meijern measured it at 2500+ grams. That is just above 5.5lbs. Now, I'm not critisizing the w3v here - it's still a nice system. And it has a lot of features for it's weight. Just don't expect it to be *light*. Because it isn't.

It isn't light but it's got a lot of power - probably why Asus placed it in the "Performance Enthusiastic" section of their website rather than the "Slim & Lightweight".

 

Yes, I did say that, but Asus's weight's have always been dead on. Their dimensions are usually wrong..... things like number of sticks of ram, speed of ram...... size and speed of hard drive...... those are the things that are often screwed up.

Someone needs to weight a w3 without the battery or anything in the optical bay. Then weight the optical drive, travelers drawer, battery all seperately.

NO one had a good read on the weight of the extended battery, other than it was basically 1/4 pound more than the standard. Since optical drives usually all weigh the same, I wasn't going to blink on that weight..... but the weight of the battery wasnt' my number one priority.

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just curious.... did you by chance weigh just the W3 without the drive or battery? ... I was trying to figure out where the difference was coming from.

The battery is about what I figured.... same with the optical drive.

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<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by barong

 

Just stopped by the trusty old P.O. again to use their scale.

The weight of the W3V with 8-cell battery and optical drive is 5 pounds 9 ounces.

The weight of the 8-cell battery is 15.5 ounces.

The weight of the optical drive is 7.1 ounces.

Sorry, but I didn't have the traveler's drawer with me.

 

I think I'll stop by the PO tomorrow. [|)]

 

OK, so thats about 4.2 pounds without the optical drive or battery....

Anyone have a read on the 4 cell battery?

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Yeah, the unit itself without battery or drive was 4 pounds 2.4 ounces.

+15.5 ounces for 8-cell battery = 5 pounds 1.9 ounces.

+7.1 ounces for optical drive = 5 pounds 9 ounces.

I would imagine the weight with battery and traveler's drawer is around 5.25 pounds, then.

 

The weight of the unit and the drive together is 4 pounds 9.5 ounces, which is right about 4.6 pounds. Perhaps someone weighed it without the battery (perhaps due to questions about whether it would ship with the regular or high-capacity battery?), and they posted that measurement and never got around to updating it? I dunno.....

 

hummm.... I don't know.. I mean Asus has always nailed their weights... s5/m5/w1/m6/w5/v6 to name basically all the centrino's in the last year..... I wonder whats up with this one.

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Maybe, just maybe, ASUS used a different model of the W3 [like the W3N or W3A] to approximate the W3V's weight. I'll use my electric weight scale tomorrow to weigh my W3V with the 8 cell and DVD drive installed.

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just from the variations from what people are saying (4.9lb to 5.9lb), it would seem some scales are quite a bit off (i know most are unless you use the ones in the hospital to measure medicine doses etc, they better be spot on!!!)

 

well, I don't know.... but Asus has never gone that before which is one reason I liked the way they weighed things.

However, the industry standard that I think dell started was weighing systems without anything that could come out.... battery, drive if the drive was removable. This made a lot of people with "8 pound" inspirions think that the the 7 pound W1 was heavy, when really their notebooks were more like 10 pounds...

I know Asus has been fighting against that sort of thing for a long time, I just wonder if since thats the "standard" people are really comparing against, if that's what they started going with. I think the basis for it all is really......... everyone has a dell or someone with a dell and they "think" 8 pounds or whatever weighs a certain amount, when really that 8 pounds is a lot a more.

Now that I think about it, Asus' S5 was critizied somewhere for being heavier than the 12" dell unit this summer, but Asus said they were virtually idenical spec and dimension wise, but the S5 was 2.8 pounds with the battery, and the Dell came in at like 2.2 pounds or something like that.

I don't know... maybe it was a mistake on their part, or maybe a change of marketing........ afterall everything of late is starting to signal Asus' push into the rest of the market.......... ie: new warranty, expansion of models, lower pricing, etc.

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