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    XPS 1330 users, Please Chime with your Battery Life

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by vengance_01, Jan 25, 2008.

  1. vengance_01

    vengance_01 Notebook Deity

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    I currently have my XPS 1330 with a 6 cell. In XP I am looking at a solid 2:30 mins with Heavy web Surfing and Bluetooth on and the screen at 4/7 brightness. With a HD 720P Anime Rip playing from the HD, using headphones and screen at max brightness I get around 2 hours. This to me seems a bit low. I am thinking of putting Vista on the machine to compare battery life.
     
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    kozzney Notebook Evangelist

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    I find that I actually do get longer battery life with Vista, ~30 minutes more than XP. I dual boot both on mine.
     
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    hum thats quite a bit. With me undervolting it I could get close to 45 mins
     
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