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    battery life xps 15

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by corn4ahead, Jul 30, 2011.

  1. corn4ahead

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    Anyone know what the average battery life is on this beast?
     
    corn4ahead, Jul 30, 2011
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    maximum 3 hours?
    Thats not great.... What about with the 9 cell?
     
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    9-cell should be around 6 hours if you are talking about the l502x, which is the Sandy Bridge version, and the current one on Dell's website. This is under light browsing, word processing, etc. Obviously with use that uses the NVidia card or requires more CPU usage, the battery life will go down.
     
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    Yep, thats the one Im getting. Do you like your xps 17?
     
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    6 hours for the 9 cell sounds pretty low.....reaching 7-8 hrs with turned-off wifi and medium brightness is not a big deal. The average on my one (i5-2410m) is 4 hrs of movie watching and approximately 30% percent remains in the battery, this is enough for approx 2 hours editing, light browsing (wifi needs to be turned to power saving mdoe). Of course if you are not watching movies constantly (I do while I travel), this leads to a fair 8 hours.

    The maximum I got with really light browsing and listening to music was a little bit over 10 hours.
     
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    That sounds great! Thanks for the input.
     
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    Love it. No real complaints in the end, it is a very strong system, meets my needs well.

    6 hours is with actively browsing the net...yea I would get a fair bit more with wireless off. Brightness ~33%.
     
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