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Low battery time?

rosen — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 21:06:10 GMT

When bying my VAIO K415B in the specs was said the battery life is 105 min. I have never got more than 55 min. It's from the very beginning. What could be the reason?
And the fan is always running. I have another laptop-Toshiba.It stays on battery for almost 2.5 hours and the fan is working occasionally-just when too many programs are running.

Re: Low battery time?

Jay1 — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 21:32:56 GMT

well the manual time is just a rough aprox not the excact value and toshiba laptop have a better fan control software then sony ones. so the battery life all depends on wht setting u put it on and wht u are doing on it. for example wht setting is the LCD brightness and how much of the CPU and HDD u are using while on batt mode. but ur looks like it half of the stated rate tht does not seem to be right. hopefully another memember should able to help u out on this matter. but what do u do while on battery mode and plus put the energy mode to degrade see if tht helps.

Re: Low battery time?

robpaxton — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 21:55:29 GMT

The K415B uses a desktop processor instead of a mobile processor. In general, the fan will run constantly on these machines because of the extra heat output. and limited processor performance control.

When Sony (and most other manufacturers) determine the battery life they run the computer with the screen at level 5 (50%) brightness in Vaio optimised mode, they unplug every peripheral, turn off virus scanners, firewalls, other background applications, WLAN, etc. and fully defragment the disk drive. Then they basically only run non processor/hard disk intensive office applications.

Because of this, the published battery life rarely matches real use battery life.

Re: Low battery time?

kee-lo_ — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:05:26 GMT

Because of this, the published battery life rarely matches real use battery life.

Yes you can expect something like 75% of what they quote

Re: Low battery time?

Kris1990 — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:32:40 GMT

i have a fs115b and the battery lasts for a few hours! but it is a pentuim M:smileygrin:

Re: Low battery time?

rosen — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 20:24:04 GMT

Thanks a lot. I am not a great specialist in computers and it seems that I was misled by the Sony dealer that I am getting something really great (I mean the K415B). So the fact that the processor is not mobile explains everything.

Re: Low battery time?

Nerm — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:50:23 GMT

Hi,
When i was looking to buying a laptop realy did my home work first because i knew as soon as i went into a shop and told the sales person what i wanted he/she would try and fob me off with some carbage that realy they knew nothing about, after all all there interested in is your money and will tell you anything you want to hear.
And true to my thought they did just that in Office World, the sales guy came to me and said " hello sir can i help you" i told him i wand a laptop with deadicated graphics instead he try`d to palm me of with a lappy that had intergrated graphics.
So i fobbed him of and went else where.
Ive ended up with a FS115S and very pleased with the why it performs and get about 2 hours Max from the standard Batt, but looking for a longer life Batt so if any one knows how much pls let me know thanks..

Re: Low battery time?

Kris1990 — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:53:28 GMT

the FS batterys are really expensive

Re: Low battery time?

Kris1990 — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:54:31 GMT

here's one

Re: Low battery time?

seb21__ — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:00:53 GMT

Intergrated Graphic Cards aren't bad at all. These new Intel Chipsets make a good job and needing less energy than a NVIDEA or ATI (only bords with Intel 915 chips and higher)But you are right, the speed is not compareable with real VideoRam. And 2hours battery livetime isn't much today. One reason is the poor battery. You have to pay for a better one. 200-300€, correct me if I'm wrong.

EDIT: lol Kris was faster.

Re: Low battery time?

Kris1990 — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:06:33 GMT

seb : i typed mine really fast this time as normally i finish typing it and post it to find kee-lo has posted one already:smileygrin:

Re: Low battery time?

seb21__ — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:43:28 GMT

LOL

Re: Low battery time?

kee-lo_ — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:49:11 GMT

ROFL

Re: Low battery time?

jammold — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:39:16 GMT

Would 25-45 minutes be quite low?

It is the maximum I can juice out of my laptop at the moment. A new VAIO battery is on its way when Amazon decide to send it.:smileyrolling_eyes:

Re: Low battery time?

kee-lo_ — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:24:57 GMT

25mins is very low James

Re: Low battery time?

jammold — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 01:13:42 GMT

Thanks mate. I thought that was very low.

The battery is showing 1% wear as well according to mobilemeter. I am a little concerned by this as I thought my VAIO battery would do much better.

I am eagerly awaiting my new battery which is delayed another 6 weeks! Curse AMAZON!!!:smileygrin:

I would send this laptop back to Sony but I actually need it at the moment at Uni - so it would have to wait until May 2006.:smileysad:

I am not doing well, what with the fact Sony failed to fix my LCD inverter, and the battery is just well cr4p. I hope I might be lucky second-time around with Sony. *sigh*

Re: Low battery time?

seb21__ — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 03:32:08 GMT

25mins is very low James

yep, I had some toasts and coffee in this time. And there was something in TV.:smileyblush: So, I need a bit more time then, sometimes.

Re: Low battery time?

kee-lo_ — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:45:00 GMT

Shame you can't hire a laptop for a few weeks James