12 Cell battery reporting.......

I'm to lazy to search, but I wanted to report back. I have a dv6275us and when with a 12 cell battery that was on close out at compusa.

With xp and set to max battery using the wireless and webbrowsing, nothing demanding......outlook 2007 etc.......screen set to min brightness.

I'm getting 4.5 hours of run time! I was like holy crap, the standard 6 cell barely made it to 2 hours under these same conditions.

Only thing is that the battery is ugly as sin sticking out from the bottom like a rogue tumor.

Hope this helps some

 

Is this your laptop?

How much did the CompUSA 12 cell battery cost?

Thanks for the topic, it helps

 

I actually like it sticking from the bottom, easier for me to type and bottom fan do not get choked.

 

How do you think you get the extra power?

It's gotta come from somewhere & it's in the form of extra cells which means the battery needs extra space!

Having a larger battery, especially under the notebook is a small price to pay for a longer battery runtime IMO.

 

Yes that is the model laptop. Comp listed it as 179.00 but I got it at half off since they are closing the store.

 

Um.......as an electronics college professor......yes i'm very aware about the power requirements.

However, my zt3280us had a 6 cell battery and it was almost spec for spec except for the processor and the fsb and it would last almost 4.75 hours with a nice flat bottom battery.

The ONLY reason that these things suck is because the low cpu multiplier won't let it drop below 987 MHz on battery and that is a HUGE power consumer when two cores are running. I'm assuming this is to meet the vista min spec of 800 Mhz. The older HP would drop the cpu to 210Mhz hence the longer run time.

It just pains me the hardware is so damn power hungry and can't be adjust manually to tweek the low end mulitplier.....and also I reverted it to XP for better GPU control which was a major savings from 45 minutes to almost 2 hours!!!

Its called rushed to market.

 

Is your model a HP dv6000t? I'm a little confused..

 

DV6000 is the series, the actual model determines what options are installed into the system. Things like intergrated video vs discrete graphics

EX: DV6275US (mine) has nvidia video cards and X options
DV6265US (model below) identical EXCEPT Intel integrated graphics
DV6235US (further down) same basic hardware, lesser version of Vista

so the DV6000 is the series line, the specific model determines what is installed into the system.

I prefer a seperate graphics card and not the intel integrated crapola.....

Understand?....

Chris

 

That's what I thought...

I also noticed there are models that have eu instead of us

What's the difference? Do us models only work with US sockets (110V)? Cause usually the AC/DC adapters are 110-240V capable.

 

This I'm not sure of. I would suspect european vs united states voltage compatiblity?

Maybe someone can chime in that does know....

 

That's what I'm thinking of too... but as I was saying, it wouldn't make sense, usually all the AC/DC adapters (for laptops at least) support both European and American voltages and AC frequency.

Or maybe the eu models are AMD based, the dv6000z series right?
:confused_smiley:

 

The models which are sold through retail stores/resellers get a model number like dv6332 etc. This is to identify different specifications & help the avg joe differentiate between two similar models in a store. If you custom ordered a machine from HP then you get the series name dv6000. The eu & us just refer to the market place the model was intended to be sold in & so will incorporate any necessary changes to meet regulatory restrictions. Nothing else is different. HP also adds on differentiate tags to laptops which are sold in specific stores - for ex laptops sold in walmart have the wm tag whereas the ones sold in bestbuy have the nr tag in the end.

The 't' refers to Intel whereas the 'z' refers to AMD based systems.

 

OK, thanks for clearing that up

I'm from Europe and I intend to buy an HP nx7400 or a dv6000t should I be concerned about certain incompatibilities if I purchase an us tagged model? Like WLAN issues?

 

Generally, there shouldnt be any usability issues other than the warranty not being honored by HP in your country. You will probably have to ship it back to the US and provide a US address in case of any warranty repairs.

 

Yeah, I was expecting the warranty issue.

Thanks for your reply.