FZ Battery Life.

Could some owners of the FZ post some battery life figures please? It would be helpful if you could post what battery life you get in different situations e.g. all features on, optimisation mode etc.

Thanks guys/gals.
Jam.

 

most people can get their batteries to last almost 3 hrs using the vaio optimized power plan and lowering the screen brightness with light usage.

i have had my vaio for 2 days and can confidently say that if u use the optimized power plan, screen to full brightness, wifi on, while searching the web, using various applications without rest, the battery will last about 1.5hr, probably the shortest it'll ever run. i was a little disappointed, and will from now on be very battery-conscious. hope that helped.

 

The Estimated battery life for FZ standard battery is 2 - 5hrs while 3.8 - 8hrs for LBC
(Large Capacity Battery) 5 and 8hrs are mostly standby time and there no exact time
for the batery life that depending on how you used it and depends also on the power plan you set the computer.

 

2-2.5 hours seem to be good estimate in realistic settings. Since GPU throttole does not seem to be working on FZ now - meaning 8400GT is always running at 450/600 - that can cut down battery quite a bit. If that can be dealt with, maybe battery life will get better. From what I gather, GPU throttling does not work on current-gen SONY/ASUS etc, while it does on Dell, Toshiba etc - I wonder why.

Disclaimer: I am not very sure about which brand/model can, indeed do GPU throttle correctly, above mentioned are merely my speculation from bits of info I gathered around

 

you can underclock your card and get it to 100/150.

 

When I was settled on an FZ model I looked at the FZ190 and the specifications showed 2-5 hours battery life compared to 2-4 hours battery life on the FZ140/160/180 but actually they are all about the same. 2-4 hours battery life is what you should expect. I have done a few full run battery tests and I ran them on mid-brightness, getting little bit less than 3.5 hours on average use, and just about 3 hours on moderately heavy use. I have not tested for battery life when watching a movie.

Everyone's battery life will be different though because no two batteries are manufactured the same.

If you want more battery life consider the extended battery for the FZ series. It provides 1.5 times more life than the standard battery life, so by specifications it should give 4.5-6 hours, but realistically you will get around 5-5.5 hours. My friend has an extended battery for his FZ140 and you can watch a 3.5 hour movie on it, on full brightness. He says he gets around 5.5 hours battery life, around 5 hours on moderately heavy use.