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Just a question about the battery.......is it easily swappable? Say you are on a long trip and want to watch a few dvds..... Great machine, bit worried about battery life though.

nice, lets see some larger pics andsome gaming benchmarks

Adam@PCTorque: Are you really sure that you activated PowerNow! in Windows XP when you did the battery test?

It dosen't seem to me like you did, so you should ativate it by selecting Portable/Laptop in Control Panel>>Power Options>>Power Schemes that looks something like this:


Then you should be able to use AMD's PowerNow! Dashboard to monitor your system and to make sure that PowerNow! really is active and it looks something like this:


You can download the AMD PowerNow! Dashboard from here:
http://www.amd.com/images/PowerNowDashboard_setup.zip
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...5E4396,00.html

Also make sure that you've installed the latest AMD Athlon 64 Processor Driver for Windows XP that you can download from here:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont.../Cpudriver.ZIP
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...5E9706,00.html

Enabling this should extend the battery life significantly, and reducing CPU heat dissipation and thus providing an even cooler and quieter-running system

I wanna see a teardown

naw it gave me a good laugh this morning

nice, can you do a test running this for optimal battery? Im really curious as too the real battery life of the unit, the first test seemed like horrible battery life.

Why are you surprised at 1 hr 40 min on battery while watching a dvd? That sounds about right considering it is rated at 3 hours under a "normal" drain.

yeah usually the battery lasts as long as the DVD...unless you're watching lord of the rings

I was thinking about how the e-Machine notebooks did on battery life and they lasted at least 2 hours or more on batt life. I was hoping for at least that much.

I wanted to know more about the performance of the low powered athlon64 2800+ in the machine. Playing a dvd might not be the best test for comparing how the low power processor compared to the DTR processors.

i did a search for batt life in the emachiens forum and i turned up with users getting between 2-3 hours watchign dvds.

I had a 6807 and it would last a few minutes shy of 3 hours just sitting there doing nothing. I find it hard to believe it would make 3 hours playing a dvd.

hmmm........let me see if i can find it again.

http://notebookforums.com/showthread...t=battery+life heres a little more insight, they get anywere from 3.5 by tweaking the cpu and gpu, to as low as 1 hour 20 minutes playing games, and over 2 from dvds, and this is the DTR version of the cpu, i had higher expectations form a truely mobile cpu.

as snorre said, im sure the battery life will be better with all the power saving features enabled. ill run my own test when i get mine...

kk, that works