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HP Envy 17 - battery life

post #1 of 4
12/30/10 at 4:13pm
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Amazon says the HP Envy 17 gets up to 3.75 hours of battery life with the included 9 cell battery and additional 2.5 hours with the extra 6 cell battery, which should be a total of 6:15 of usage with both batteries installed.

Does anyone here have one of these?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...pf_rd_i=507846

I found a few posts on other boards that seem to say this notebook gets less than two hours of battery power and maybe as little as one hour.

What can I expect?

Can I buy better third party batteries?

So far, I like everything I see about this notebook, but a two hour battery life would be a deal breaker.
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post #2 of 4
12/30/10 at 4:32pm
You can expect - with 2 batteries - up to 6:15 of performance, depending on what you are doing. And as time goes on you'd be lucky to get 1hrs plus on the 6cells and 2hrs plus on the 9 cells.

I would stay away from 3rd party batteries, regardless of brands/models for notebooks

Did the other boards mentioned about which battery users were using - 6cells? 9 cells? What the users were doing?

Bottom line - one does not buy high performance notebooks and hoping to get the maximum in advertised battery performance. For some 17" notebook with good battery performance, go with an Apple

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post #3 of 4
12/30/10 at 5:02pm
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Can I expect at least two years of solid use before the battery life drops to 50%? If so, I can live with that.

I can't afford a Mac. A comparable Macbook Pro would cost nearly $2400. The HP is less than half that.
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post #4 of 4
12/30/10 at 5:04pm
Notebook batteries are hit-n-miss, but I don't normally see any issues with battery performance staying at least 60-65% after 2-3 years.

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