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    U330 battery life

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by JWBlue, Jan 12, 2009.

  1. JWBlue

    JWBlue Notebook Deity

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    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?
     
    JWBlue, Jan 12, 2009
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  2. jonlumpkin

    jonlumpkin NBR Transmogrifier

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    I can't imagine that being a problem, although I don't have a u330 so I can't verify.
     
    jonlumpkin, Jan 12, 2009
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  3. allfiredup

    allfiredup Notebook Virtuoso

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    Here is an excerpt from a review of the U330 posted here on NBR:

    Source- http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4696
     
    allfiredup, Jan 12, 2009
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  4. jaredy

    jaredy Notebook Virtuoso

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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.
     
    jaredy, Jan 12, 2009
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  5. MidnightSun

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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.
     
    MidnightSun, Jan 12, 2009
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  6. JWBlue

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    I did read that review, but like jaredy said, running the optical drive is a power hog.
     
    JWBlue, Jan 12, 2009
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  7. EnterKnight

    EnterKnight Notebook Evangelist

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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.
     
    EnterKnight, Jan 13, 2009
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  8. speed2001a

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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.

    LP
     
    speed2001a, Feb 10, 2009
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  9. jonlumpkin

    jonlumpkin NBR Transmogrifier

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    Are you running Vista? If so, the HDD is almost always active (albeit at a low level). However, I have not seen this impact battery life (in fact I get better battery life in Vista than in XP), so I stopped worrying about it.
     
    jonlumpkin, Feb 10, 2009
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  10. speed2001a

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    Ok regarding the battery time but what the heck it is doing if there is no reads and writes? You can check that in the performance monitor...although the disk light is active all the time the number of i/o's - reads and writes - do not change...quite strange unless there are special processes that do not count for performance monitor.

    Thanks for the answer.
     
    speed2001a, Feb 10, 2009
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