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    HP battery Life

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Agent89, Aug 6, 2004.

  1. Agent89

    Agent89 Newbie

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    Processor AMD Athlon(TM) 64 3000+ 1.80 GHz
    Operating System Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Home Edition Display FREE Upgrade from 15" XGA to 15.4" WXGA (1280x800) Graphics Card 64MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(TM) 4 440 Go +1394 & 5-in-1
    Memory 512MB DDR SDRAM (2x256MB)
    Hard Drive 60 GB 4200 RPM Hard Drive
    Primary CD/DVD Drive 2X DVD+RW/R & CD-RW Combo Drive
    Networking 54g(TM) 802.11b/g WLAN w/ 125HSM/SpeedBooster(TM)
    Primary Battery 12 Cell Lithium Ion Battery

    Typically, what kind of battery life would I get out of this? I will mostly be websurfing, and programming on it
     
    Agent89, Aug 6, 2004
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  2. brianstretch

    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

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    3-4 hours. The Athlon 64's power management is very good.
     
    brianstretch, Aug 6, 2004
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  3. DaGreek

    DaGreek Notebook Evangelist

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    I agree with normal use in windows 3-4 hours if your playing demanding games then I'd say 2 hours and movies probably 2.5-3 hours


    Compaq R3000T (CTO)
    P4 Desktop 3.0GHz w/HT
    1 X 512MB RAM
    Radeon 9600 128MB
    60GB 5,400 RPM HD
    AquaMark3: 24,257, 3DMark03: 3,115
     
    DaGreek, Aug 7, 2004
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    What about this one?

    HP Pavilion zx5000 series customize notebook
    - Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 3.00 GHz w/HT Technology
    - Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Home Edition
    - FREE Upgrade from 15" XGA to 15.4" WXGA (1280x800)
    - 128MB ATI Mobility Radeon(TM) 9600
    - 512MB DDR SDRAM (2x256MB)
    - 60 GB 4200 RPM Hard Drive
    - 2X DVD+RW/R & CD-RW Combo Drive
    - 54g(TM) 802.11b/g WLAN w/ 125HSM/SpeedBooster(TM)
    - Microsoft(R) Works/Money
    - 12 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
    - hpshopping in-box envelope
     
    Agent89, Aug 10, 2004
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