What kind of battery time do you guys get on your notebooks ? I bought a new one on Monday and it is supposed to get up to 4 hours but i only get 1 hour 40 minutes. I have charged and discharged the battery a couple of times. I wonder if it's the wireless that takes all the power.The battery meter kpowersave freezes sometimes as well.
Mark Hi .
I have a Compaq Presario 5030 64bit laptop with every thing screwed down tight i can just about squeeze 3 hours out of the battery .
As M.Harris has said go thru every thing and if not needed haveit turned off i find the backlight on the display and the CPU are the big killers ..
Hmmm... interesting... I have an early Centrino laptop (1.4Ghz), and when it was new, I was easily able to get around 5 hours on the battery on normal use (ie not gaming or compiling), and if I tweaked everything as M.Harris suggests, I could push that just over 6 hours if I limited activity to things like email, web browsing, document editing, and did not use the WiFi. Of course now that it's a few years old, the battery life has reduced. Of course that's Centrino, and they were built with low power consumption in mind. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org