Short t61 battery life?

Hi ive had my 14.1 ws t61 since about august with a 7 cell battery and a nvidia quadro140m. im really not happy with the battery life as i only get about 2.5 hrs even with power saver on. I was just wondering if this is what you guys get or if something is wrong with my laptop.

 

That doesnt seem to be normal, with my specs T7300, 2GB Ram, Quadro 140m, on power saver during normal usage, i get 3.5 hrs minimum...

 

What are your charging methods? How many cycles are on the battery?

 

Also, how many processes are you using and do you have the wireless on?

 

when I just do internet wirelessly, mine lasts a bit over 3 hours

 

Yeah and you only have the 6 cell so with the 7 cell you should be getting around 3.5-4h.

 

wireless is on, most of the time the laptop is plugged in so would guess that there are only about 50 discharge and then charges on it

 

Do you charge the battery to 100% after using the battery for awhile?

 

no the battery life is so short that most of the times it goes down to critical battery level before i charge it

 

Do powerpoint & word while media player is singing.

about 2.5 hours. still unsatisfied =<

 

with my 15.4" t61p and a 9 cell battery, I get about 4 hours with min screen brightness, word processing, and wireless internet.
if i turn wireless off, i get maybe 4.5 hours.

 

when I had the laptop connected to my car via USB to read engine parameters, the laptop lasted only 1:30 hours

I believe if I do heavy gaming, it should last about that much too.

Word processing or internet is no big deal, I would get 3 hours doing that

 

I don't know what you guys are talking about. I went to the library yesterday, and lasted five hours on my t61p with 9 cell. Wifi was on the entire time and brightness was at 50%. I'm also working with the new T9300 and 100 GB 7200 RPM harddrive.