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    just bought the hp spectre x360. anything i should check on?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by titanlord1, Jan 24, 2016.

  1. titanlord1

    titanlord1 Notebook Consultant

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    anything i should check on to make sure its running smoothly. the main thing i have concerns for is the battery. what is the best application to make sure the battery runs for as long as its stated?

    Thanks.
     
    titanlord1, Jan 24, 2016
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    Ipaqman Notebook Guru

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    I use BatteryInfo and BatMon to log battery usage. BatteryBar has an issue with the Spectre because the bios does not report calculated battery life.

    Using battery monitoring, the Spectre (FHD, 8GB, 256GB SSD) has a battery life on idle, minimum brightness, airplane mode of 19 hours. My surfing battery life is 7 to 9 hours.

    If you want to reverse the direction of touchpad scroll, you should google inconsistent scroll direction. I had to install Windows 8 version of the Synaptic driver to get it to work properly. I had found that the start menu and settings scrolled differently than other apps when I reverse the scroll by unchecking the reverse scroll box.
     
    Ipaqman, Mar 17, 2016
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