When you say 6-7 hours, is that with intermittent use? Do you get 6-7 hours of solid use (not leaving it in standby) whilst web browsing, photo editing etc?
Sp4 - can it get 5 to 6 hrs battery?
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When you say 6-7 hours, is that with intermittent use? Do you get 6-7 hours of solid use (not leaving it in standby) whilst web browsing, photo editing etc?
Hmmm, that's interesting to know. Using Edge I will get about 3 to 4 hours absolute max. Adblocker on, 30% brightness, Cortana off, Bluetooth off, Windows Hello off.
leeshor
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I use Firefox with AdBlock + 35% bright, Cortana, blue tooth and Hello all on but several background process off and only one active/live tile. Honestly I see no battery difference with Hello one way or the other. I'm pretty sure the only time it consumes battery is when the IR camera is on. It's only a few seconds.
Philtastic
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It sounds like your CPU is being used at almost 100% that entire time which means that something is running in the background killing your battery life. You will want to monitor Task Manager to see what your CPU usage is at and which program is using it.
I literally get 6-8 hours of screen-on time, most recently while playing a day-long session of Dungeons & Dragons where I kept both my character sheet and player manual up the entire time. I keep track of current HP, ability usage, and other changes by drawing on the PDF with the pen.
Philtastic
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If this is truly the case, it's probably a hardware issue because a functional SP4 lasts far longer than 3-4 hours.
I tried mine several times and never got over 4 hours. Office work with outlook and exchange server, office programs and browser lead to about 3,5 hours till the battery was done.
Yesterday I installed steam and played some counter strike source to test it in battery. About 3 hours and the battery was empty.
Do you think that it is a hardware related problem?
The battery life is the problem that annoys me the most.
Yesterday I installed steam and played some counter strike source to test it in battery. About 3 hours and the battery was empty.
Do you think that it is a hardware related problem?
The battery life is the problem that annoys me the most.
Philtastic
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Battery life highly depends on usage. Reading an ebook? Easily 8 hours. Browsing the web? 6-8 hours mostly determined by how obnoxious the ads are on the pages you're viewing. Playing a game? I'd expect 1-3 hours because you're really pushing the system.
Basically, the reason that battery life varies with usage is because the CPU & GPU underclock to low power states when the computational speed isn't needed. You can see this in real time using Task Manager.
You list programs but not usage patterns, how often are you polling Exchange? What are doing in Office? Pivot Tables and Excel Analytics consume more cycles, as does large and complex documents or PowerPoint Decks. Browser choice can impact battery by 25-50%...
I get 5.5 - 8 hours depending on usage.
