How long does P5020 battery really last?

The review I read on cnet seems to diifer considerably from whats quoted by Fujitsu...


http://reviews.cnet.com/Fujitsu_LifeBook_P5010/4505-3121_7-21220755.html?tag=pdtl-list

Thanks,
Neil

 

I normally get 3-4 hours with screen on full brightness and wireless on and active. If you turned off wireless and reduced screen brightness, you could probably get twice as much life.

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I also get 3-4 hours on the main battery, and over 7 with the modular bay battery. And I'm running the screen at max brightness, wireless on, running Word, Mozilla, and playing music.

--Pat

 

Hey, ya know battery life is one of my prime considerations. But I came across this Toshiba Centrino 15" "W"-XGA with Centrino 1.4M and you get 3+hrs with reg batt, adn 7hrs+ with $150 batt = 10hrs! Pretty compact for how much realestate you get, and 6.2lbs. See my recent post in "Toshiba" section.

Neil

 

I too love Netflix and I know a number of people that I work with do too. I've not yet copied a DVD to the notebook, but have been contemplating the move for the same reasons you note. I think it will take les battery to spin the HDD than the DVD and the quality should be the same.

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speaking of battery life:

im considering getting a p5000 series, and i will eventually use the dvd for a trip or two, but on a trip i think the modular bay will get filled with a second battery.

so, heres the question. lets say you dont want to tote along both the dvd player and a modular battery. have any of you had ripped a dvd and played it back from the hard disk? would this also improve battery life? is reading a hard disk more efficient than reading a dvd?

i subscribe to netfix so i could actually take a dvd along for a trip, but is this ripping idea any good? as an aside, netflix i found is the best thing in film addiction. i bought a tivo and record the dvds at the end of the week if i havent had time to watch them. in nyc i get my new selections within three days of mailing. its been a fast turn-around in this locale.

 

yeah it uses much less battery power to play a movie file than spin a DVD

 

Anybody have any recommendations on a simple (cheap) way to rip DVDs to the HD? I've tried several and haven't found one I really liked.

Maybe this should be another thread, eh?[ ]

 

yeah you should make it into another thread, because I'm looking for the same thing! Something I could just pop a DVD in, open the program, click RIP and have it rip a nice file with ease.