Battery life x60t with Vista?

[jkooman]

I have seen many topics that the battery life of the x60s with the 8-cell lithium-lon is around 8 hours.

Now I'm ready to buy a new x60t with Vista pre-installed but my only question left is how long it will run with the 8-cell battery.

Anyone allready experience with this?

[JamHandy]

I have seen many topics that the battery life of the x60s with the 8-cell lithium-lon is around 8 hours.

Now I'm ready to buy a new x60t with Vista pre-installed but my only question left is how long it will run with the 8-cell battery.

Anyone allready experience with this?

I am staying with XP on my x60t (6363-C3U) for now, because of the hit on battery time, but also because I see so many issues cropping up here and there relating to Vista. I use my tablet for work and really don't have time to deal with extra stuff right now. I will move to Vista once it gets a bit more established and hopefully the battery life is improved.

But my best guess from reading everything I could find on the battery issue is that after you have turned off everything which could effect battery life (bluetooth, wireless, sidebar, Aero, etc.), you can expect to lose approximately an hour of battery time due to Vista. It could be less, but in the absence of more testing, it is just a guess. On XP, my battery with the wifi turned on and not on the lowest screen brightness setting displays over five hours of remaining time, but I have not had a chance to test it yet.

This thread might be of interest:
http://www.gottabemobile.com/forum/foru ... p?TID=1547

[karlth]

Vista on a X60t and I have around 4-5 hours of battery life with backlight on the second lowest setting and wifi on.

I work though mostly using remote desktop so disc activity is very low.

[tyanlion]

Some bad things

-I tried vista on my x60s. don't do it . its not ready yet. when i plug in the power supply it doesn't go back to my normal settings and stays in super power save state.
-its runs quite a bit more hotter than xp. be also prepared to lose 200-300 mbs of ram. turn off the desktop widgets ( they can give u 100 mbs of ram more).
-Battery--> lets not talk about it(its really as bad as everyone claims) but i am under the impression cause i still haven't understood all the power options on it.( i think anandtech or tomshardware actually did a test and they said battery life was more or less the same as xp i wonder what they did to get it the same though)
-returning and going into hibernate and sleep takes a hell lot longer than xp


Some good things

-the lid doesn't have the blink problem when u open and close it(big plus for me)
-its got a dammn lot of power options . seems lenovo increased the power saving options on it
-Aero looks nice...........ok that was kinda superficial
-Superprefetch works dammn well (but consumes a hell lot of ram) word and outlook like open after the first try instantaneously because of it
-Switch off button is not on start menu. got to dig down a bit
-windows dreamscene is nice as well
-harddrive a bit quiter cause of prefetch(can't really back this claim definitively)



Don't go to vista just yet i say wait for service pack 1 coming later this year. the battery life burnt ain't worth it.

[dfumento]

I strongly recommend Vista for the X60(s). The only thing that doesn't work is that it doesn't go on full brightness when waking from sleep state (e.g. opening the lid) and all I have to do is disconnect and reconnect the power supply.

Meanwhile the other advantages like search are enormous.

[gunston]

thanks for the advice.
i was bout to get a Vista Ultimate edition.
looks like it isn't mature yet.

[holdenburg]

Some bad things

-Some good things

-the lid doesn't have the blink problem when u open and close it(big plus for me)

This is driving our Execs nuts. I have tried the updated driver but have seen the same symptom. On some of the desktops, it moves all the icons back to 800!
Anyone got a fix for this??

[tyanlion]

YES i knew i wasn't the only one that is going crazy abt this problem. Everytime i walk around then talk to someone abt something i have my thinkpad at hand and when i open the darn thing up to show him something......... i wait for like 10-20s for it to get back to normal . Its really driving me insane but unfortunatly the batt life u lose with vista is so significant that i am willing to stick with xp and still have this blink problem. once someone gets the batt life up with vista i won't mind switching operating systems.