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    Battery life of M860TU

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by kevindd992002, Aug 3, 2009.

  1. kevindd992002

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    What is the expected run time of the M860TU when I set it to Power Saver, Silent Mode, and halfway brightness in Windows 7? I have a 9800MGTS with an Intel P9500 C2D.
     
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    Three hours.
     
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    Hey Sov. I just tried now and I just got 2 hours. What the hell is wrong with this laptop!
     
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    I really don't know, haha. My idle system conditions may be different from your idle system conditions, but all I know is I can get 150 minutes doing light work or browsing around randomly. This is with Windows Seven x64 build 7264 on high performance, normal fan mode, 42% display brightness, a passive notebook cooler, a QX9300 unrestricted at 1.6GHz with no undervolting, and a GTX 280M with the lowest level underclocked and undervolted from 200/400/100 @ 0.85v to 160/320/80 @ 0.7v.
     
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    That's cool. You're even on high performance. How many cells does your battery pack have? And AFAIK you're using high-class cells right?
     
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    Our batteries are identical. We both have eight cell 4400mAh batteries.
     
    Soviet Sunrise, Aug 4, 2009
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