Chiropteran
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- Nov 14, 2003
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If you consider 2 hours of light use as good battery life then you have very low standards.
Heh, good job with the selective quoting. If you read the whole paragraph you would see that the battery is set to only use 80% of it's capacity, and in addition there is some sort of bug flaw or issue going on with my laptop causing it to go from 50% down to 9% battery instantly. I don't think that is normal or intended behavior, and I am assuming that if I can figure it out and fix it myself (or just get it fixed under warranty) the overall battery life will improve.
Besides that, I think the general rule applies: performance, battery life, inexpensive- pick any two. For a $380 laptop that can play any game I throw at it, it has performance and inexpensive covered, so I am perfectly fine with 2.5 hours of battery life. For comparison, I also have a dm1z w/ E-350 APU. It runs over 5 hours on a single charge, but compared to the Samsung above the dm1z doesn't perform nearly as well and it cost about 50% more when I bought it new.
But hey, if you have a brand new laptop under $400 that either has a quad core llano APU or some sort of graphic chipset with equal performance that can get 4 hours + battery life, I'll reevaluate my standards for battery life. I don't think such a beast exists.