how much battery life does your T42/43 have?

[ddutta]

After reading a lot of T42/43 posts, it seems that the battery life is variable. Maybe we should collect some data on how much battery life etc. Some metrics would be

machine type:

display type:

actual cpu speed:

age of battery:

life of battery with
* wireless on, full brightness, speedstepped, browsing
* wireless on, 60% brightness, speedstepped, browsing
* wireless off, full brightness, speedstepped, reading pdfs, ppt etc
* wireless off, 60% brightness, speedstepped, doing wordproc
* wireless off, full brightness, cpu not speedstepped, DVD play
* wireless on, full brightness, not speedstepped ... for crunching

is this a good idea? if so, should we add more stuff to the list.

[monkey243]

my T43
266844H
1024*768
800Mhz
wireless on, full brightness, speedstepped, browsing
about 3hour

[Steve007]

is this a good idea?

No.

There's too many variables, plus everyone uses their machine for different things. If someone is just using their TP for word processing then I expect it to last a lot longer than someone who does a lot of tasks at the same time (thus causing the HDD to eat up battery juice).

[TimWang]

Under normal circumstances, I would say about 3 hours. But then again, I never time my computer time so 3 hours is just a guess.

[motodude]

T42
15" flexview at half brightness
wireless off
600Mhz @ .7v using CHC
gpu underclocked

I get a little over 4hrs. Unfortunately if I listen to mp3s the current draw goes up significantly, I wonder if there is not some way to load several songs into memory?

[fartonmyear]

10 minutes.