HP DV6T QE Battery Life?

Im interested in getting a HP dv6t qe, especially with the 30% coupon available right now, and Im just wondering how long the battery life is with the standard 6 cell, high capacity 6 cell, and 9 cell, on average internet usage? Will the standard 6 cell give me 4-5 hours of average internet usage or will I have to upgrade?

 

I'm wondering the same thing. Was considering this and the XPS 15 for college, but I don't want something that is going to eat the battery in 2 hours.

 

i have a dv7tqe, with a 9 cell and light usage (wifi, web browsing, note taking, word processing, occasional youtube videos, ect..) i get roughly 6-8 hours on it so far.. with the intel gpu of course

 

I just ordered the computer, should get it in a week or so, but I'd have to imagine a lot of it depends on your specific specs. Keeping the video card on will massacre your battery life. The quad-core processors also use more power than the dual-cores, and a 1080p screen will use more than a 720p. I have an old DV6 from about a year ago with the 9-cell that will usually run me about 4 hours. It's got a core2duo though. The closest figure I saw a 1080p with a base i7 at mid-low brightness, vid-card off running closest to the estimated battery times.

 

There will be barely any difference. The main power hog in LCD displays is the backlight, and while the backlight in the 1080p display is brighter and will use more power at max setting, the fact that it's brighter means you don't need to keep it at max setting, and therefore will get similar battery life keeping it at the same real-world brightness.

Don't sacrifice the screen just to get an extra few seconds of battery life.

 

a 1080p screen contains twice the number of pixels than the regular 768 screen, while both operate at 60Hz. Theoretically this will load the CPU/GPU a bit more, but how much of a difference this will be for battery life remains to be tested.

 

I can concur with this. I purchased both the standard 6-cell and the over-sized 9-cell. Having the same habits as above, I can get an average of 3-4 hours of battery life on the 6-cell (using the HP recommended power settings and high performance GPU) and 5-6 hours of life on the 9-cell.

The real killer of battery performance, IMO, I have noticed, is HD video. Doesn't matter the source. As long as the GPU is processing, you are shortening the lifespan.