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ShyGuyInChicago
January 7th, 2011, 10:45 PM
My laptop's battery life is i hour 15 minutes. My netbook's is five hours and fifteen minutes. I have both set to high performance and the screen set to maximum brightness.

What is your laptop battery life, and power plan and level of brightness?
scuba steve
January 7th, 2011, 10:49 PM
I always use the maximum power plan so I can stream videos without a hitch and get around 2 hours with my laptop running on battery power. One hour and 15 minutes is still good as laptops battery's in general just suck.
1_21Guns
January 8th, 2011, 04:00 PM
Nowadays I'm lucky if my laptop lasts an hour on battery, I have it on high performance unless I'm not really using it. Probably my own fault 'cause I havent calibrated the battery in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaages XD saying that, my laptop is now over 2 years old.
Kaius
January 8th, 2011, 04:03 PM
Mines an 8+ Plus if all the features like wifi are turned off, but usually it lasts between 2-3 hours depending. The brightness is set roughly in the middle, not dark nor bright.
Azunite
January 8th, 2011, 04:10 PM
Sell your laptop, add some dollars on it and buy a desktop
1_21Guns
January 8th, 2011, 04:12 PM
Sell your laptop, add some dollars on it and buy a desktop

If you're not going to answer the question then don't post. That wasn't what he asked, so there wasn't really any need to say that.
UnknownError
January 8th, 2011, 05:32 PM
I have a netbook and its about 2 hours 20 minutes if its on full brightness.
Fourth Dimension
January 8th, 2011, 06:43 PM
my net books battery life is shit seriously only lasts like 2 hours
ShyGuyInChicago
January 9th, 2011, 08:42 PM
I always use the maximum power plan so I can stream videos without a hitch and get around 2 hours with my laptop running on battery power. One hour and 15 minutes is still good as laptops battery's in general just suck.

May I ask what laptop you have?
Aves
January 9th, 2011, 09:08 PM
My bro's old laptop was maybe 4 years old... It's battery lasted maybe 30 minutes, if you were lucky and not doing anything. xD
JackOfClubs
January 9th, 2011, 09:14 PM
My laptop (when it wasn't broken) got around 2 and a half hours if I'm just typing something up on Word, but that is with the performance all the way down, along with the brightness. If I'm watching something on Hulu, however, it gets less than 45 minutes of video, as I am not able to watch an entire episode of Family Guy.

The laptop I'm currently on, which is a Toshiba Tecra M5 from about 2007, gets around 45 minutes to an hour if just browsing the web on a full charge.
nnnm
January 14th, 2011, 10:36 PM
About 2 hours (formerly 5 hours), low brightness settings, regular power plan. I'm buying a new battery that will hopefully give me 5 hours again lol