Recent content by longbow122

Putting in a bigger battery actually seems like a good choice for me, the only thing is, it's rather expensive and given my experience, it could go very wrong. Decided to return it, and since I won't need one until next year, I'm going to use that time to make a better choice, given that I now...

Fully plan on doing so tonight, got to see if I can get hold of a bigger battery that'll fit there, need to take measurements Perhaps I should yeah, been looking at some more branded laptops that seem good. Although I am worried that it's a Huawei, purely due to all the security scared...

Fully plan on doing so tonight, got to see if I can get hold of a bigger battery that'll fit there, need to take measurements

So, after a live chat with them (failed to get through to them through the phones), they said they weren't sure themselves. They say I'm going to have to risk the drive space I have in here, but it could be possible to get a bigger battery in there, again dependant on the space. So it's...

50% across an hour. And no, that's exactly why I'm looking for said better battery, as it's physically impossible for me to be able to get a charge while in school/class. Uni could be a different thing since I'm only in College, but I've got to be ready for that too. And yeah, they do tend to...

I would email them if I could, but my previous emails have taken almost a week to respond, and I need to make a choice by Wednesday. (Thursday is when I need to choose to return or not). And yes, this laptop runs perfectly as expected other than the battery, and now I know it's not exactly a...

So would there be any point in calling since it's extremely unlikely that I'm going to be able to fit a better battery in this thing?

Thanks, but if the battery was upgradable, would it not have come up as an option for me when configuring?

For this laptop, yeah, you could say I'm slightly happy now that I'm actually getting the predicted performance of it (before was only getting an hour to two hours from 100%.) But I find it strange. Could be the low watt rating of the battery. Would it be possible to get it replaced? (The...

It is yeah, so on the positive side of things, PCS did their job. Still got to think about whether 5 hours is enough.

For this laptop, I'm well aware it's pretty good, been lasting 4 hours 34 mins with 44 mins left to go too. Problem is, the load I'm taking it under is so light, fans aren't even running and the CPU isn't even running hot. So I don't understand why I'm not able to squeeze more power out of it.

Thanks for the suggestion, under regular use, I'll probably do the same, but for testings sake, been running it at half since I tend to work early mornings too, I struggle seeing my screen if the sun shines right on the screen

Hi everyone, so after taking the laptop through multiple charge cycles and using it fairly regularly for a good few days (I have until this Thursday to return it), I've finally seemed to managed to sap the expected battery performance out of this laptop. As I'm writing this, the laptop has...

Thanks for the tips. I've actually recently decided to simply send it back and forget about anything high-performance for a while. Since I'm a CS student I won't be needing at least some of the things the Optimus offers. As much as I agree that's it's a brilliant laptop, the battery is just too...

It's what I've been trying to do, however, I'm not actually sure where else I can lower power consumption settings. Do you know any ways other than the obvious battery saver mode on the battery settings?