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    Considering this Pavilion DV6

    Discussion in 'HP' started by ultralord910, Aug 17, 2009.

  1. ultralord910

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    Hey guys,

    I am considering to buy this laptop,

    http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10127464&catid=26955

    and I have some concerns.

    1) What battery life will I expect from this laptop or similar models? Especially when surfing on the internet or taking notes in university. The ASUS laptop I'm using right now only manages 2 hours when surfing on the web and listening to music.

    2) The description states that the laptop comes with a HD4530 with up to 2303mb of graphics memory, does that mean this HD4530 uses shared ram or is it a typo?

    Any help is greatly appreciated! :)
     
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    HP's site says it's got a 6-cell battery, so 2 hours would be an optimistic estimate. My DV5 gets 1:40 on its 6-cell, that's in power saving mode. You'll definitely want to get a larger battery.

    2) The HD4530 has 512MB dedicated memory. It probably is HyperMemory technology - the card will dynamically allocate system memory for its own use when needed. It is only enabled when needed.
     
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    HI DesertNM, Aug 17, 2009
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    Thanks for the reply.

    Where can I buy those batteries in Canada?

    Though I'm considering staying with my ASUS G50V with around 2 hours battery life as well.
     
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    Same web site.. just hit the little Canadian flag on the upper right. If your thinking about buying a 12 cell at the retail level good luck. If you do manage to find a store that stocked your model battery it would cost allot more.
     
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    I managed to get 2 hours and 10 minutes out of my 6-cell battery coming with my dv5, but I use several optimizations, coming from undervolting the cpu and using a battery saving profile with a maximum operating frequency of 1050 Mhz (the proc is an amd turion zm-80).

    BTW, my zm-80 dual core processor at 1050 Mhz is pretty enough to do common workload such as web surfing, writing and watching videos with acceptable lifetime.
     
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    JWnFL, Aug 18, 2009
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