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    how long would a T7250 last on a six cell battery?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by benx009, Dec 18, 2007.

  1. benx009

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    how long would an intel T7250 processor last (paired with an nvidia 8600GT) on a six cell battery?? i know nothing of batteries, but would saying three hours be overkill? maybe two? hopefully not one. or am i so unproficient in my laptop battery knowledge to know that there are different levels of six cell batteries? :rolleyes:
    tia
     
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    Depends on other things too, and can vary between manufacturers.
    Other things such as your screen size and its brightness and your HDD rpm.
    Also there is "High-Capacity" cells in batteries which make it last longer, than regular ones, but they aren't that popular.
     
    allan_huang, Dec 18, 2007
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  3. adinu

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    You probably won't be hitting 3 hours, but somewhere over 2 for sure. But like allan said, a lot of other things count towards battery life.
     
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    And what you are doing with the computer, high demand CPU tasks mixed with high GPU tasks would drastically lessen time span. As a complete guess and assuming you are using power saving features of CPU, doing office or surfing type tasks you would expect in the 2 hour range not 3 on a "standard" 6-cell. But just a guess.
     
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    My XPS M1530 (T7250, 8600M GT, 6 cell) gets between 2 and 3 hours (about 1 when gaming) depending on what I'm doing and how bright the screen is.
     
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    ok, thanks for all the help guys, i apparently forgot to mention that i was talking about normal usage (web browsing, text editing, etc.) at least i get the idea
     
    benx009, Dec 18, 2007
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