Upset about battery life in X201 review?

I'm extremely happy with the Thinkpad X201s, but I can't help wondering about the ridiculous battery life reporting in the X201 review on this site.

Does it trouble y'all to think that people might make a purchase based on the numbers here? I've got an SSD in mine and even under the same conditions (70% brightness, balanced mode, wifi), I can't get around the same times - 7 hours on the 6 cell battery, 11 on 9 cell. The X200 review on this site underreported battery life by 2-3 hours but that could have been Vista.

I don't think I've ever seen a discrepency this large.

 

Yes, it does bother me. I made a purchase based on the claimed numbers, and I was sorely disappointed to find such poor battery life.

 

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/20-ways-to-increase-the-life-of-your-laptops-battery/

http://www.gearfire.net/34-ways-to-improve-your-laptop-battery-life-1-app/

You might want to turn down the screen brightness even further and perform a clean install.

 

Do you own a x201 or x201s? What is your maximun battery life per single charge? How many cells with your battery?

 

I own a x201s with a 6-cell battery and I get about 5.5 hours.

 

Don't know about the X201s but for the X200s I was able to tweak the power saving settings to get what they advertised plus a little bit more with the SSD. These are advanced settings both in BIOS and in Thinkvantage Power Manager, plus a few in Device Manager as well.
If I have time I'll put up a guide, but I can't guarantee anything.
Just look around in Power Manager is my recommendation.

 

I've got a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate on my SSDed X201s. I've tweaked all the settings as necessary, but the review specifies the default "balanced" mode. I don't think their battery test uses the lowest brightness setting... nor should it. That's what manufacturers use when they tout the bettery life and we hate them for it.

The battery life on this site is just a little surprising given the real world experience everyone is having. All the reviews here have always tested laptops in fairly strenuous situations - "Each model was tested with the screen brightness set to 70%, wireless active, and Windows 7 set to a balanced profile." There doesn't seem to be a way to achieve their results with the X201 series... something is completely off.

I used the X200s for an entire year and my battery results were significantly higher than the scores on this site.

 

unlike car industry when quoting their fuel uses, there is no set standard or legal requirements for quoting battery life.... and if one company disregard marketing ethics when quoting their abnormally long battery life, other companies follow.... because no one wants to lose out....

In many instances, people actually do purchase laptops when it has a good REPORTED battery life, especially in ultraportable category, as most people wants to use it all day without having to charge their battery. Long battery life means that many people do not need to take the AC adapter with them and that the battery won't be worn out from frequent charging cycles.....

Laptop companies will continue to deceit customers when quoting battery life, as long as other do the same thing and they never get reprimanded for these deceitful figures....

 

forget laptop companies... overestimating battery life is typical. The only exceptions have been Apple over the past few years.

This is a notebookreview website. I'm calling them out on this. There is no way... even with the most conservative settings... for them to achieve their battery life with "Each model was tested with the screen brightness set to 70%, wireless active, and Windows 7 set to a balanced profile."

 

There is no exact time a laptop battery can achieve. It's just something that doesn't happen. It's like going on long trips, you say you can get there in 4 hours, but it may only take 3 hours, or even 2 hours. You have no way of exactly telling how long the battery will run for.

Companies are not held responsible for incorrect, or inaccurate battery times. As with NBR, they can't either. All laptop's are different, and where some say they can get 6+ hours on the 9-cell for Latitude D620, I only get around 4:30.

 

I suggest x201s owners to run CMD as an administrator All programs > Accessoiries > cmd

and type powercfg -energy

You'll get a diagnostic of your power consumption, and guess what my out of the box windows 7 64 is confusing "plugged in" status and "battery" status. So I change the plugged in settings of maximum battery life to minimize power consumption and I gained almost an hour of battery life.

I feel that Thinkpad power manager and windows power manager have some conflicts. Has anyone gotten the same issue ?

 

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