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    New Sony Vaio Z real-world battery life?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Sprite, Mar 25, 2010.

  1. Sprite

    Sprite Notebook Consultant

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    Can someone tell me the real world battery life of the Sony Vaio Z such as performance vs stamina mode for the Core i7?

    or continuous internet surfing or continuous movie watching
     
    Sprite, Mar 25, 2010
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    heavyrain2408 Notebook Guru

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    Anyone?

    I'm considering to upgrade my Z to new one and want to know about its battery life too. Thx :)
     
    heavyrain2408, Mar 25, 2010
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    bump...i would like to know too
     
    Navy Brush, Mar 25, 2010
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    standard battery, i540, stamina mode balanced power setting, screen 75%

    browsing internet wifi about 4.5 hours

    playing WOW in speed mode, same settings as above about 1.5 hours
     
    colonels, Mar 25, 2010
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    95%when turn on, screen 40%,i7,8GB ram,quad ssd
    opening wifi, about 4 hours
    20% battery left
     
    finalforever, Mar 25, 2010
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    I performed nearly the identical test, also with backlight at 75% (though with a long timeout, such that it never turned off). I spent most of the time on BBSes like this one, with a lot of reading. Elapsed time until Hibernate: 5 hours, 3 minutes. I'm not going to take the time to repeat this with my extended battery! ;)

    Cheers!
    Mark
     
    MJFlash, Mar 26, 2010
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    Hi, Folks!

    Once again, a Core i5-540, 4GB RAM, 256GB SSD, in Stamina/Balanced power mode with a standard battery, this time playing movies. In this case, AVC is playing back ripped DVDs over WiFi from my home fileserver. The file format is exactly that of the DVD - no transcoding had been done on the content. Brightness is set at 75% throughout.

    Playback started with about 1/2 hour using the internal speakers (higher power consumption), then continued with Line Out from there on. Total elapsed time was about 3 hours, 25 minutes.

    Cheers!
    Mark
     
    MJFlash, Mar 27, 2010
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    Extended battery, Balanced power mode, auto brightness, web surfing and email over wireless, nearly 9 hours.
     
    millercentral, Mar 27, 2010
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    thanks for the replies, so i guess i should expect 3.5-4 hours of battery life. i was hoping for at least 5 hours.
     
    Sprite, Mar 29, 2010
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