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post #21 of 51
4/21/08 at 8:04pm
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post #22 of 51
4/22/08 at 2:10pm
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Notice the bottom right corner, and the programs I have running.
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post #23 of 51
4/22/08 at 2:16pm
Wow. Almost 4 hours of battery life, that's awesome. I like that screenshot. Did you post that pic in the 1st post?

oh and gl on the midterm.
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post #24 of 51
4/22/08 at 2:36pm
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Screenshots of windows estimating battery life aren't accurate, they fluctuate a lot, but I took it just for fun since I was bored in class.

Like now it says 2 hr 57 min, (75%)

Thanks btw!
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post #25 of 51
4/22/08 at 10:38pm
how the fook did i miss this write up??

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post #26 of 51
4/22/08 at 10:52pm
yay sticky!....
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post #27 of 51
4/22/08 at 11:07pm
I didn't even think to turn off AlienFX... man what a machine.. switch ON, Gaming Hard Core, Switch OFF tons of battery life
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post #28 of 51
4/22/08 at 11:26pm
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how the fook did i miss this write up??

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Jeez...Steve, about time.lol I thought that you were blind ur something..
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post #29 of 51
4/22/08 at 11:49pm
It was the long trail of stickies I left in my message lol....
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post #30 of 51
4/23/08 at 2:05am
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how the fook did i miss this write up??

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Awesome!!
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post #31 of 51
4/25/08 at 1:46am
Wow Koshin great guide, I wonder, I read somewhere that amd or intel???? has or is planning on multicore where power saver shuts down whole cores..... senn nething like this possible on the 15x?
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post #32 of 51
4/26/08 at 12:36pm
I know that PCBUS67 I think it is makes Notebook Hardware Control.

I wrote the creator of that software when it didn't work for my m7700 and he asked for a few specs and with the next release he had it working for me.

I'm 90% positive if you wrote him on that arch that he would incorporate that into another build. That feature seems really, really useful.
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post #33 of 51
4/29/08 at 10:01pm
I'm gonna be using this guide pretty soon...
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post #34 of 51
4/30/08 at 12:55am
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Nice, I hope it helps

If you're getting the smart bay battery, post battery times too!
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post #35 of 51
4/30/08 at 6:19pm
I'm getting the smart bay battery, later on. But, def.
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post #36 of 51
5/6/08 at 12:23am
I had the smartbay batt on my sentia, in retrospect I really wish I had gotten 2!!!!

The reason I didnt is cuz AW has no dock station or external battery charger, and I didnt want to have to keep swappin battery just to charge(ontop of changing when it got low)

What Im really curious about though is discharge priority and hot swapping!!!
The sentia did something stupid and discharged from the primary first, so even if I had a 2nd 2ndary batt, it would have required a shutdown to swap when the primary was done then the 2ndary was low. Nor would it boot w/o the primary installed even if the 2ndary was full and installed. I really hope they addressed this issue.

Next was hot swapping, I could hot swap the battery in, but it would crash if I tried to hotswap a drive into the bay. Being as these are prolly on a SATA bus now, Im hoping this issue is addressed as well.

Ne owners w/ 2ndary batt care to comment on discharge priority and drive hot swapping???
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post #37 of 51
5/24/08 at 3:54pm
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So I'm testing my smart bay battery as we speak...

Initial estimates by vista are at 5 hrs for an approximately full charge on both batteries. That seems low since I can get 4 hrs off of just the standard 6-cell.

The smart bay battery discharges first, and it also only contains about 85% of the power that the regular battery does, although both are 6-cells. I guess I'll have to do a real-world test rather than a vistimate (vista estimate).
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post #38 of 51
5/24/08 at 6:42pm
cant wait!!!!
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post #39 of 51
5/24/08 at 9:49pm
unplug away Koshinn....
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post #40 of 51
5/27/08 at 4:15pm
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It's about 6 hrs with the smart bay battery in. I REALLY want to get 8 hrs to say you can use the m15x in low power a full work day without recharging, but I don't think that'll happen unless you put it into sleep for a while.

It's 6 hrs with wireless on.
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