How's the battery life? Can you use anAC adapter?
203969
Battery life seems long to me. My first one is with my Grandson and he loved it, used it a lot. No reported problems from his Mom, who would have let me know. The second one is not used as much and has the same batteries for several years. There is an adapter outlet on the back.
203970
Great! Has worked for over 3 years now. The pen has had to be replaced several occasions though.
203971
Battery life is very good. We don't use an adapter. We have never had to replace the pen. It is quite durable and in our home, that is a necessity!
390745
Battery life seems pretty good, but I definitely recommend the accessory kit that is only $19 and includes an extra battery and an external battery charger. Better to always have a extra charged battery on hand!
928246
Remarkably good, but I haven't measured it. On all day yesterday, actually using it probably a total of 3-4 hours with sleep mode between uses, and still good life in it. Only time it died was at the end of that day I started a download of Windows 8.1 and forgot to plug it in--died about 75% of the way thru after a couple more hours.
864952
Battery life is great! I get about 3+ hours of basic use (browsing, etc) and about 1.75-2 hours using photoshop, light gaming, etc. if you manually specify most programs to use the intel graphics it lasts quite a while more than the nvidia graphics, but you'll always trade power for speed. Overall it's a great setup and I've thoroughly enjoyed mine for both work (photographer) and play (gamer).
1283837
Thanks for the info thus far, Paul. I've been out of the country, lugging my 8 pound Dell Vostro around with me, wishing I had this baby. Sounds like the wifi card is good. Like the backlit keyboard? I assume the battery life will not be earth shatteringly long what with all the bells and whistles. The two reviews written thus far have provided about zero useful info, so if you can, keep it coming.
1453983
I would say no! It is like a laptop, some programs will not run at top performance while on battery. If you cannot get AC just ride without the program and read out features.
315932
Honestly, not great. But keep in mind that its a core i3. Its got a two cell battery and gives about 3 to 4 hours of life which is more than my old acer netbook running a single core atom ever gave with a 3 cell battery.
1833137
When plugged into the keyboard - I've been successful using it for 5-6 hours (coast to coast flight) using standard office aps. When using it to stream internet content or play movies, 4 hrs.
1227557
I am very pleased with the AGPtek nine-cell battery. It has tamed that little power-greedy bugger and made it useful. I run Mint Linux on it. I've never actually run it down to empty, but I have gotten more than three hours out of it. The power meter says I have more than six when its fully charged -- and I think it would give that as long as you weren't taxing the drive and graphics too much. It is a bit bulky, but I actually like the way it raises the back of the unit to make it like the legs of desktop keyboard. It also gets rather warm, so I wouldn't recommend using it in cramped conditions where that heat will be allowed to build up. All-in-all, I recommend it as a good solution to the problem. I am very pleased with the AGPtek nine-cell battery. It has tamed that little power-greedy bugger and made it useful. I run Mint Linux on it. I've never actually run it down to empty, but I have gotten more than three hours out of it. The power meter says I have more than six when its fully charged -- and I think it would give that as long as you weren't taxing the drive and graphics too much. It is a bit bulky, but I actually like the way it raises the back of the unit to make it like the legs of desktop keyboard. It also gets rather warm, so I wouldn't recommend using it in cramped... » Read More I am very pleased with the AGPtek nine-cell battery. It has tamed that little power-greedy bugger and made it useful. I run Mint Linux on it. I've never actually run it down to empty, but I have gotten more than three hours out of it. The power meter says I have more than six when its fully charged -- and I think it would give that as long as you weren't taxing the drive and graphics too much. It is a bit bulky, but I actually like the way it raises the back of the unit to make it like the legs of desktop keyboard. It also gets rather warm, so I wouldn't recommend using it in cramped conditions where that heat will be allowed to build up. All-in-all, I recommend it as a good solution to the problem. « Show Less
1564436
Battery life has been great so far. I've recently switched over NiMh rechargeables for all of my batteries. Haven't had to recharge them for about a month. The mouse has an auto shutoff feature after periods of inactivity.
1340724
Sorry, but I didn't get an adaptor with mine, although I will probably look to see if I have one that fits it. The battery life is not what I expected, nor is the brightness.
631368
Battery life is very good (a rechargeable lithium battery). I have a an external charger and don't have to connect with USB.j:
1704056
I didn't try AA bateries in this one, but I use the F550 and last for abou 3 hours, and also by accident I left my NP-F770 on at lower point from midnight to 6 pm to the next day when I come back the light still on, and put to recharge the batery and it shows 50% of charge wich is prety good.
148038
Hi.I have owned this laptop for a couple of months now and it is amazing. The average battery life I am getting while running wifi and having the brightness about 3/4 bright, I am getting 5 1/2 hours. With wifi off running regular programs like Word, Excel and Powerpoint, I am getting about 6-6/12 hours. Amazing battery life
539497
I've mostly used it on USB, but from time to time it comes unplugged and I dont notice til days later that it's still running. I've never attempted to use it for 80 continuous hours, but I'd say it lives atleast 60 before it needs a charge.
775416
Not sure what you're asking. The stock battery life is about 2 hours (less if Wifi is on). You'll get about that for HDMI playback. Be sure to get the right HDMI type cable (non-ethernet), as the camera tends to be a bit finicky about what it likes to connect to. I've found that it's often easier to use the USB connection instead, if the monitor provides that.
2081211
I've not had any problems with battery life, but then plug in to charge every evening. Yes, I am very happy with the transformer keyboard.