What is the actual average battery life of this laptop?
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It depends on what you do. I usually use it for watching movies or shows, and it usually lasts around 3-4 hours. Other wise, if I'm using it for social networking or just browsing, around 5-6 hours.
270538
The average life of the battery is average 5 hours. If I'm watching videos it drains faster.
270539
mine is about 3.5 hrs. I just used it on a five hour flight and it lasted about 3.5 hrs
871814
Ultimately up to you, but performance mode is by far the best user experience I've ever had with a laptop and power saving mode gets literally 4 hours of battery life while capable of multi-tasking programs that would normally kill a laptop's battery in 45 minutes. More memory than you can imagine, including 250GB of Solid State goodness. Very capable of a dual boot if necessary, and has zero cooling issues whatsoever - This laptop really doesn't get that warm because of the killer technology inside it. I'm definitely happy with it!
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I would say that by official spec battery should last approximately 4 hours. And that's almost what it last in my daily use of it. Now if, watch a streaming movie or play a heavy computer game, that goes down drastically. I would say that under conditions of heavy resource use the battery can last for 1.5 hours, maybe a bit more depending on how graphic intensive the app is. But I don't think you going to get 2 hours flat. That said, remember that the "I" series CPUs from Intel have energy consumption limitations. I chose this laptop because I didn't want anything bigger than 13 inches and that's the price you pay for that. You can find a better battery in a bigger more expensive laptop. I believe that for the price and the size and the little weight of this Probook, this is a good battery rating. At the end of the day it's going to be what you need and can pay for. I am pretty satisfied with the features of this product.
1672678
3-5 hours of heavy use when I had it. Have since given the computer to my son who uses it.
1056317
This laptop have battery Li-Ion (48Wh, 6-Cell) with Battery Life Up to 4-5.5 hours
464385
Honestly not that long... laptop might say it has about 4 hrs left of battery life 30 mins later it will say 1hr30mins left
1380147
Between 2 to 2.5 hours of full-on use of the laptop...better than the HP battery by at least a half-hour.
1602368
The battery doesn't last as long as the specs say it will, but then again, that is the case with all computers. I use quite a bit of CPU throughout the day, so without charging I would say it lasts 4 to 5 hours. Given the amount of CPU I'm using, I'm very please with that. If you are just using Microsoft Word and maybe 2 tabs of whatever browser, I would imagine the battery lasts much longer than 4-5 hours.
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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
1785587
What is battery life : 5 to 6 hours is it really a 4th gen intel i7 at this price: Yes. This is an open box item.
1410009
I haven't had mine long so I haven't worn the battery down, but in-the-box new my laptop has been lasting about 4 hours while playing Steam games, so it's pretty decent.
1187936
I really think the battery is ok, i have bought two of this laptop and if you are using it continuosly the battery life is approx 10hrs.
1721836
I have been getting about 4 almost 5 hours out of a full battery charge on this laptop. Right now I am just using internet and reading documents off. I also have the Screen brightness turned down low to help save battery life.
430447
Thanks for the reply! I also frequent notebookreview.com....I received my UL30A-A2 today, though, and will put it through the battery test hoops over the next couple of days. Even if it is not the advertised 16 hours 12 hours is still absolutely excellent imo!
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That's a good question. I don't see the battery life mentioned in the literature, but I don't think it has 10 hours of battery life. I'm prompted for a power source after a couple of hours. I have to say though, that I love this computer and highly recommend it. My husband is a software engineer. He chose the computer based on its specs out of a number of other options. He was so right. It's a powerful computer.
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yup,usin it right now. even double of battery life if usin the 6-cell currenty. does add a bit of weight, kinda like a normal laptop as opposed to ultrabook, but well worth it, 10 hour day with random music and movie streaming, easy twelve if just business.
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Lenovo rates it up to 6 hours (idle, dimmed screen, etc). Real world usage is probably around 4-4.5 hours.