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E-1505 Battery Life With 6-Cell?

post #1 of 14
9/10/06 at 5:49am
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What are your battery times like? At full capacity and on low brightness, mine only lasts about an hour and 45 minutes while running a DVD. That's with wireless turned off and Notebook Hardware Control running on Max Battery... Is this normal? (P.S I have the 6 cell)
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post #2 of 14
9/10/06 at 10:11pm
Just browsing the web and reduced brightness I get about 3 1/2 to 4 hours on mine....Going to get Dell to send me the 9cell since my old laptop came with one and this is a replacement... they have to match my other specs so there should be no problems.....
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post #3 of 14
9/11/06 at 10:54am
SacKings, from my experience I would say this is normal. I am suprised at the poor battery life of this laptop (the only time I get 3+ hrs is with the lid closed playing mps in the lounge so thats okay and WiFi on too) While watching a DVD it shutdown with 10 minutes to go

So the big screen sucks alot of juice. Sure, turn the brightness down as much as possible but let's face it - when watching a DVD with friends you want to enjoy it, not squint at it

I have a Sony Viao with 13.3" screen and can get 3 hrs + with that... so not just dell having same issues (oh, and I have RMClock with voltages down too)
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post #4 of 14
9/11/06 at 4:57pm
I get 2 plus hours with a DVD and about 4 with just browsing on my E1505 with a 6 cell bat. Need to order a 9-cell.
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post #5 of 14
9/11/06 at 9:27pm
6 cell + x1400 = poor battery life =(
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post #6 of 14
9/11/06 at 10:13pm
how poor is poor? i'm deciding between the x1400, x1300 and integrated graphics card and would love to know how much of a difference in battery it would make. are we talking hours?
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post #7 of 14
9/11/06 at 10:36pm
My system has the X1300 and as stated with just web browsing I get around 4 hours, probably will get no more than 2 1/2 to 3 hrs playing DVDS, but after talking to Dell Tech support they have agreed to send me a 9 Cell Battery to replace my 6 Cell, so I will give you my new battery life times as soon as it arrives, also Dell has agreed to replace my X1300 with the X1400 Though I doubt it will be much of a difference as far as battery drain over my current X1300......

Specs E1505 T2400 1.83 Dual Core
X1300 128 (Soon to be replaced with X1400 256Mb)
15.4 WSXGA+ Ultra Sharp True Life
1Gig RAM DDR 667
80Gig Hd 5400
8x DVDR+\-R Dual Sony
3945 Wireless
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post #8 of 14
9/11/06 at 11:38pm
about 2:30 with wifi and web surfing. Minus 30mins with music on about 2hrs.
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post #9 of 14
9/12/06 at 3:55am
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Glad to know my battery is ok then...
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post #10 of 14
9/12/06 at 9:12pm
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Originally Posted by spike7
about 2:30 with wifi and web surfing. Minus 30mins with music on about 2hrs.

Same here, even when using RM clock on the lowest voltage setting. Then again, I haven't really tested/timed it, I just look at what the program says timeleft wise.
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post #11 of 14
9/12/06 at 11:26pm
i get about 6 hours with my 9cell on the e1505/x1400 lowest brightness
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post #12 of 14
9/13/06 at 9:45pm
Just got my 9 Cell replacement today and I can now average 5 1/2 to 6 Hours...Technition also showed up and installed my X1400 Video card as well,replacing the piece of crap X1300... This was a good day........

E1505 T2400 1.83 Dual Core
15.4 WSXGA+ Ultra Sharp True Life
X1400 256Mb
2Gig DDR2 667
80Gig Hd 5400
3495 Wireless
8X DVDR+/-R Dual Sony
9 cell Battery Lithium
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post #13 of 14
9/14/06 at 10:29am
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Originally Posted by warlord
Just got my 9 Cell replacement today and I can now average 5 1/2 to 6 Hours...Technition also showed up and installed my X1400 Video card as well,replacing the piece of crap X1300... This was a good day........

E1505 T2400 1.83 Dual Core
15.4 WSXGA+ Ultra Sharp True Life
X1400 256Mb
2Gig DDR2 667
80Gig Hd 5400
3495 Wireless
8X DVDR+/-R Dual Sony
9 cell Battery Lithium



What problems were you having? I just got my E1505 with the x1300 and 6 cell....I'd sure like to know what you said to get them to send a 9 cell and the x1400!
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post #14 of 14
9/14/06 at 1:15pm
My E1505 was a replacement under warranty, and Dell was slow in processing the order,so as a concession they upgraded my video card, also my 8600 had a 9 cell battery so dell as per the warranty had to match it or do better, so they shipped the replacement out after I called and complained....as far as performance I gained about 500 points in 3DMark05 jumped from 1375 on my X1300 to 1877on the X1400, and Half Life 2 on high settings as well as Quake4 on Medium settings run much smoother.......
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