Battery life poorer on newer laptops?

Hi,
I was looking at the reviews of the newer lines of HP laptops, i.e. the dv5000 and dv6000t series and I am surprised that battery life seems to be worse than my old Compaq X1000. I'm planning to replace my X1000 with a dv6000t, but would like to retain the excellent battery life of my Compaq, which lasts nearly 3 hours on a standard battery.
Could the newer Intel chips have worse battery life? That's because most reviews for consumer laptops of this size indicate relatively short battery life (approx 2 hours).
Btw, is the dv6000t a good replacement for the X1000? Will it have the same robustness and solid build of the X1000/ZT3000? Mine stays cool and works perfectly for the past 2 years and I leave it on most of the time.

 

battery life is dependent on many things besides the cpu. the general consensus seems to be that CDs and C2Ds have about the same battery life as the Ms. this is where some users are disappointed because the expectation was that the new chips would have better battery life as opposed to similar battery life

 

But I haven't seen any dv6000t that will last 3 hours.....

 

HP probably has components in there (motherboard...GPU) that suck away more battery life. They might also include a battery with less power (such as a 65WHr battery instead of 85WHr batteries). I don't know what comes with the laptop, but those two reasons would probably explain it.

 

The AMD dual cores also suck about 30 minutes away from the battery when compared to Core Duo/Core 2 Duo.

 

HP uses 4000mAh or 4400mAh 6-cell batteries (the ones you would refer to as regular, I think). If you are lucky to get the bigger battery, you can reach 3 hours at minimal settings and usage. Unfortunately, the smaller one is more common.

I doubt the statement that TurionX2 sucks 30 min away....bla bla. It's the rest of the configuration (incl the chipset) of those notebooks that is not battery optimized. There might be a difference between the power consumption of Intel and AMD, I haven't looked at their specs; yet 30 min is like 20% less battery life. Has anyone reported it?

 

AMD processors dont use much, if any more power than their Intel counterparts. Its really no surprise that Intel chipsets use less power. After all, the ATI Xpress 200M outperforms the Intel GMA 950.

 

Meh, just saying what seems to be true.

 

The point I'm asking is do Dothan processors consume less power than Core 2 Duo's? The X1000 uses Dothan, while DV6000T uses a Core 2 Duo, but nothing released since the X1000/ZT3000 seems to have achieved similar battery life (only worse).
I'd also like to know if the overall quality has been maintained because the X1000/ZT3000 is a very solid line of notebooks and I'm worried that its replacements may not be as good.

 

well if your going for build quality wy not check out a thinkpad

 

I had the x1010US and was thrilled with the specs\price. I recently had the hard drive "fail" for the third time under a certain retailer's extended warranty program, and picked an HP (DV?)5178 (as a replacement) which I had issues with. I exchanged it for a dv2050us. The specs\price remind me in some ways of the x1010us. Problem is, as far as I know, no one makes a regular OS CD any more, so I haven't yet seen anyone able to easily load their own OS like I could on my x1010.

The power "issue" seems to be pretty common. I went from three hours on my 1010 to about 2 on my 2050. Most of what I watch is in divx file format, so the quickplay feature doesn't help. If you are going to get one, you may want to do a CTO with the double size battery...good luck