What's your XPS M1210's battery life?

I've read that ppl have battery life of three to four hours for a 6 cell batt and I wonder how. When my 6 cell batt is fully charged and all the radios are turned off the batt meter shows 2:56 hrs for 50% screen brightness and 2:30 hrs for 100% screen brightness. Are these the expected values? What numbers do you get?

 

try 10% or 20% brightness, no wifi/bluetooth, and very light to minimal use, word processing... etc... and you will get it. don't go by the meter, its wrong! go by actual time it takes for the thing to discharge completely, aka rundown time...

 

20% brightness? I can barely tolerate 50%, lol!
This is why I'm looking at undervoltaging , using apps like NHC.

 

Wow thats interesting. Im usually fine on the lowest setting and sometimes would like it lower.

 

seriously... i had a matte inspiron 1100... and the lowest settings would probably be invisible to you, but often at night, it would just be too bright for my eyes (in the dark) but yeah, i set it to minimum, and then wish it was lower...

 

Man I got me a m170 and I'm lucky if I pump out 1 1/2 hours of battery life on mine..

 

Although you get 2-3 times our performance.

 

I consistantly get around 4-4.5 hours of battery life out of mine, with screen at a tad under half brightness (3/7) with WiFi on browsing the net and doing some work, on a 9-cell battery (I have the T7200 with nVidia graphics), so I assume if I were on the regular 6-cell I'd get about 2.5-3 hours of battery life.

I think in order to even get the claimed "7 hours of battery life" Dell makes, you'd have to have the screen at minimum brightness, with WiFi/BT off and using the Intel integrated graphics option. Otherwise, I think upto 4 hours on the 6-cell is highly resonable if its with the Intel integrated graphics and WiFi on.

 

Might be true lol.. it's pretty much my only complaint about the system.. runs great.. also due to the fact I reformat it every 4 months or so.

 

i run stuff like flash, dreamweaver, photoshop, etc all at the same time with about 10 ie windows open and 10 firefox. i never run less than full brightness and i get about 4 hours on my 9 cell, and 2.5 hours on my 6. i also play games, and it doesn't seem to burn that much faster, it's pretty solid.

 

i get around 4-5 hours when using ms word, internet on and off. 40%ish brightness.

 

I've had mine (9-Cell) on for 45 minutes now in lecture, with the screen at 5/7, wifi, firefox and word open and my battery says I have 4:38 (85%) remaining.

I am very impressed with the 9 cell

 

holliswhy, why are you mad that you have a Sony DVD-RW? Does it suck?

Mine gets about 4-5 hours.

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Is that with the Intel or Nvidia Videocard?

 

It is with the nVidia card.

 

How do you switch to the Intel intergrated graphics option?
I thought you can't switch between nVidia and Intel.

 

He meant the integreated option as in buying the system with only integrated. Only the sony SZ series notebooks has dual cards.