On one battery charge I would like to be able to watch a movie up to 2.5 hours on a DVD with reasonable brightness on the monitor (say 50% brightness? does that sound reasonable to watch a movie? ) and get another hour to surf the internet
Is it realistic to get that from this notebook?
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allfiredup Notebook Virtuoso
Here is an excerpt from a review of the U330 posted here on NBR:
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With the review numbers above, I do not think it is possible for OP to get the run time he seeks. And playing from the optical drive vs hard drive also matters.
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No, I don't think you'll be able to get that much battery life out of it. Watching a DVD requires a fair amount of CPU usage, so it will consume battery faster than sitting idle (and spinning the hard drive or CD/DVD drive would make it even more power intensive). On integrated graphics (should be sufficient for watching a DVD) and with wireless off, you'll likely be able to get your DVD in, but not have an hour of web browsing time left.
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I did read that review, but like jaredy said, running the optical drive is a power hog.
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Don't forget that a U330 screws up power consumption if it is hibernated - must reboot to remedy that. Stand By and powering on/off are a better choice... you'll see better results.
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Are you guys experiencing the hdd light activity all the time? I've disable the indexing service and didn't help...checking the reads and writes they stay the same although the light keep blinking.
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Thanks for the answer.
U330 battery life
Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by JWBlue, Jan 12, 2009.