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Of laptops and power.
Rohaq
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So I'm looking at a new laptop for university. I already have a laptop, but with only 1 hour and 30 minutes battery life, it's not exactly well suited to much more than sitting on my desk, hooked up to the AC adatper and playing games.
So I need something with better battery life. Something not too powerful, but something that will also last me the 4 years of my studies. My question is, apart from battery capacity, what affects laptop battery life? I know that a faster processor and a larger, brighter screen will suck the life out of batteries, but what about RAM? Will I lose ten minutes by having two sticks of 1GB rather than one? Will a higher capacity hard drive require more power? I know that the speed of it will affect battery life, but does the capacity have any effect either?
Essentially, what should I be avoiding if I want to get maximum battery life out of a laptop? This is a big purchase, so any help is appreciated.
More specifically, I'm looking at the Dell Inspirion 6400, but could afford a few extras if I wanted, I just want to know what I should avoid upgrading to not kill the decent battery life.
Cheers all.
So I need something with better battery life. Something not too powerful, but something that will also last me the 4 years of my studies. My question is, apart from battery capacity, what affects laptop battery life? I know that a faster processor and a larger, brighter screen will suck the life out of batteries, but what about RAM? Will I lose ten minutes by having two sticks of 1GB rather than one? Will a higher capacity hard drive require more power? I know that the speed of it will affect battery life, but does the capacity have any effect either?
Essentially, what should I be avoiding if I want to get maximum battery life out of a laptop? This is a big purchase, so any help is appreciated.
More specifically, I'm looking at the Dell Inspirion 6400, but could afford a few extras if I wanted, I just want to know what I should avoid upgrading to not kill the decent battery life.
Cheers all.
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And Xenogears, do you mean optical drive or HDD?
The less you do, the less power is consumed. Not using the internet? Turn off the wireless. Stuff like that.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
This was something I purchased a year ago, before I was considering going to university, as a replacement for a dying desktop I'd had enough of, designed to play games, do Photoshop work on, and other work that required power, hence it has 2GB RAM, a fast processor, a 100GB 7200RPM hard drive and an ATI X1600 on the motherboard.
Essentially, I don't need this much power for something I may be carrying around campus, so I'd like to know what pitfalls to avoid or hardware to look for if I plan on maximising the battery life available from a new, less power hungry laptop.