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Mine is 4:30 hours with wireless on, 6 or 7 (max) brightness, light web surfing, word processing and a background p2p. My battery is 8-cell extended battery. Its spec life is up to 7.8 hours.

Please share yours.

With wireless, web-surfing and a few ssh terminal windows I get about 6:30 hours.

My custom profile in the Thinkpad energy management shows 6/7 for battery life and I use a display brightness of 3/7.

Hello! I've been reading all articles that I could find on x60s and searched through this forum.

Could you x60s users please tell me/us clearly the weights + real world battery lifes with different batteries.

I think it's a little bit odd that we're talking about an ultraportable that seems to weigh over 1,6 kg with most common(?) 8 cell battery? Even more odd (I think) it is that all reviews seems to uuh&aah the battery life of such configuration? After all it weighs 1,6 kg!! Is that weight really an ultraportable anymore nowadays?

8 cell even seems to stick out from the back and from the bottom as well? Is it a fact that I cannot get x60s with 1,2 kg weight and with battery life more that 2 hours?

I currently use x40 and I am getting aroung two hours with 4 cell - using Wi-Fi and screen brightness at medium. At it weighs 1,24 kg.

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Without the 8-cell battery, my X60s weighs 1.14kg. With the 8-cell battery, its 1.64kg.

At first I was disappointed too that the X60s is heavier and bigger than the X40 was. I also had an 8-cell battery for my X40, and it had about 0.2kg less weight, and the battery did not stick out from the bottom (but also from the back!). I guess this is to allow for better air circulation when the notebook is standing on a flat underground. All in all, I don't feel the 0.2kg more much, and I got used to the X60s really fast. And given the fact that the X60s is a lot faster than my X40 was and the battery life is better too, I can live with the little extra weight and size.

My x60s has the normal 4 cell on it (the one with the 2 bumps on the bottom). I'm looking at getting an 8 cell. So the 8 cell also has those annoying bumps that make the laptop tilt?

FYI,
I measured a run out time of 4 cell enhanced battery by DVD player program(WinDVD) in X60s.
In full brightness (7 of 7level) and mid sound level, WinDVD could play DVD video file in 110 minutes in Seagate 100GB/7200rpm harddrive, and 125 min in Seagate 120GB/5400rpm.( Used same video file ,Not used DVD disc)
Those are estimated time ,because actual play time was limited by 3% hibernation setting, so I estimated 100% run out time based on 97% value.

the two biggest power drain on the X60s are the screen and the hard drive. so if you can limit the use of the two your battery will go far. with lcd brightness set to 3, cpu speed to min and occassional wifi on (~15% to 20% of the time), i was able to run for 5 hours contineously and still have ~30% battery life left! I was using it for reading PDF files, checking emails and writing in MS words. I think I finally found a laptop with battery life that can out last me.

jgsx wrote:My x60s has the normal 4 cell on it (the one with the 2 bumps on the bottom). I'm looking at getting an 8 cell. So the 8 cell also has those annoying bumps that make the laptop tilt?

Yup.

My X60s was being quite optimistic last night...



I think real-world would be more like 9.5 hours. LCD brightness at 0/7, CPU set to "Lowest", WiFi and Bluetooth on, doing some light browsing, Gaim connected to various Jabber/AOL/ICQ/MSN/Yahoo chat accounts, Outlook running in the background polling 3 different POP3 accounts every 5 minutes.

PTzero wrote:My X60s was being quite optimistic last night....

Hehe, when I pulled mine off the power adapter for the first time it was showing over 11hrs. I really believe 9hrs are realistic if display brightness is 0/7, unfortunately working like this is a real eye-strain...