Manufacturers always overstate battery times. I

Dozer · 03-15-2005, 05:49 AM

Manufacturers always overstate battery times. I was just wondering what kind of battery life owners of C110 and C300 series tablets are getting with real-world usage.

chaimberbell · 03-15-2005, 06:02 AM

302 - Running wi-fi, bluetooth, full brightness, and Bejeweled 2 Delux (a high usage game) I get ~3 hours.

With medium brightness, no bluetooth, no wifi, and just a simple notes program running, ~4.5 hours.

bmhome1 · 03-15-2005, 06:38 AM

303 with medium-low brightness, wi-fi running and web surfing full-time: 3-4 hours. I'm very impressed with my battery life overall. And the Centrino speed stepping is seamless, 600Mz idle and full 1.7Gz throttled instantly as needed.

rlobrecht · 03-15-2005, 11:49 PM

C111 with WiFi full brighness, two hours. If I turn off WiFi, I can get 2.5 hours. If I'm doing something really disk or processor intensive, I can get less.

sierra · 03-16-2005, 03:51 AM

C110, full brightness, WiFi on I get about 3 hours. If I "manage" my usage by turning down brightness and sleeping when I'm not actively using the system, I can go for a full 1/2 day of meetings.

Dozer · 03-16-2005, 04:37 AM

Thanks for the feedback! It looks like what you all have been seeing for battery times has been better than I expected (and fairly close to Acer's claims).

Now I get to spend a couple weeks trying to decide which model I want!

Fu-Man Chu · 03-18-2005, 08:49 AM

I have to say that mine is less - I get that battery drop problem where it goes from 28% suddenly to like 8%. As such, it only lasts ~1.75 hours before going to hibernate (even with wi-fi off, and max brightness). I find that's pretty consistent with all my batteries (I have four). I know there's a way to "reset" the batteries so that it doesn't do the drop, but it's kind of a pain to do...

YardApe · 03-18-2005, 09:03 AM

About an hour with WiFi, bright screen, cruising the Net... yadda, yadda, yadda... thus the reason for my post rightbelow...

CatalanoLaw · 03-18-2005, 11:56 AM

On a normal day in court using a little wi-fi to surf, medium brightness, jumping from program to program and opening and closing files all day long I get about 4-5 hours out of my batteries on my C303. I am very happy with my battery life and a little shocked.

Joseph

Dozer · 03-19-2005, 02:35 AM

quote:Originally posted by Fu-Man Chu

I know there's a way to "reset" the batteries so that it doesn't do the drop, but it's kind of a pain to do...

I didn't know you could reset a lithium battery... how do you do it?