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battery life 9 cell x200?

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I just received my thinkpad x200 w/ 9-cell battery and charged it and now just started discharging it. However, i see that i have only 5 hours 40 minutes remaining? is this normal? I thought the battery life was closer to 8 9 hours?
 
vertigomhs said:
well it's not always accurate and are you in power saving/ low power mode?
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yep low brightness and all, i actually just called lenovo and their shipping a new battery so hopefully it's any better... is anyone else having problems with battery life in windows 7?
 
yeah thats just windows 7.

my x200 with 6 cell (6 hour) gets 3-4 in w7, 6-7 in xp, and 5-6 in vista.
 
turn off indexing/superfetch for more battery life if you can live w/o those features. win7 also needs to be "trained" to your battery IMO, my lifespan got "longer" as I used win7 but it really was just higher accuracy.
 
No this is with the lenovo utility for power management which does not rely on windows' power math.
 
how much of the stuff is on?

turn off bluetooth, drop the screen brightness down, and you should be seeing 7-8 hours easily.
 
Just gotta ask the OP this: you're actually going to keep the stock OS/apps installation instead of a superior clean installation of the OS without all the muck? Hmmm... could have something to do with the results you're seeing. Even if it is a kickass portable computer, the factory installation is just... bleh... and can always always be improved upon, every time.
 
Joe Average said:
Just gotta ask the OP this: you're actually going to keep the stock OS/apps installation instead of a superior clean installation of the OS without all the muck? Hmmm... could have something to do with the results you're seeing. Even if it is a kickass portable computer, the factory installation is just... bleh... and can always always be improved upon, every time.
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so i should be using the windows 7 power manager rather than the lenovo power manager?
 
Joe Average said:
Just gotta ask the OP this: you're actually going to keep the stock OS/apps installation instead of a superior clean installation of the OS without all the muck? Hmmm... could have something to do with the results you're seeing. Even if it is a kickass portable computer, the factory installation is just... bleh... and can always always be improved upon, every time.
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I doubt he's running a stock Windows 7 install, unless you know something I don't.
 
Joe Average said:
Just gotta ask the OP this: you're actually going to keep the stock OS/apps installation instead of a superior clean installation of the OS without all the muck? Hmmm... could have something to do with the results you're seeing. Even if it is a kickass portable computer, the factory installation is just... bleh... and can always always be improved upon, every time.
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Not for Lenovo. Unfortunately, a lot of things that most manufacturers do in Hardware they do in Software. For instance, to have your sound play through the Speakers, you need their software. Not just drivers from Windows update (that will get you Audio through the Headphone jack), their SOFTWARE. And for the "Mute" button to work (strangely enough, the Volume buttons work with just the drivers, but the Mute requires the software). And a few others I'm sure I'm forgetting.
 
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