How is the battery life running Microsoft Office and/or a digitizer pen all day? I'm a student and plan on taking notes in classes all day with it.
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Let's just say it has an amazing battery life. We use it all day everyday (the service advisors do), and performance-wise it's just like a normal PC. Unfortunately you cannot add more RAM than it already comes with; however, it's very fast and stable. If you watch movies and things that are resource intense I'd say the battery would go down quicker, but for MS office and normal web browsing it should last you a long time. Although, I'd suggest an iPad to you because you're just taking notes, but if you'd like to have the exact PC experience, then this is it.
231396
Hi, I have not used it that long, but so far, the battery is holding up. Have not tested it on an all day run!Sorry I can't be of more help!
231397
In short, be near an outlet or carry a Solar or external spare battery charger pack. 3 hours and pushing it at that. I don't run my conservatively, all out fast and bright display. As for adding more Ram, I added 128g of ram (largest card I could find to date) //Dale\\
1755844
I've found the battery life to be above average. I had a Lenovo idea pad and it was shorter than the nexus.Charging is very good.
1995826
Depends on usage. If you are doing office work and web browsing, it should last more than 3 hours on a full charge.
176505
I don't have to charge it too often. It lasts me the whole day, and my lectures are 2 hours long each. So it holds a really good charge. Just make sure to charge it once you use it that day, or every other day. You know when it is fully charged when you plug it into your laptop and the light stops flashing. I charge mine each day I use it but I could even go every other day. It's a great recorder!
880873
I'm a grad student as well. I purchased office from amazon when I purchased the computer. This computer does everything I need to it for school. It's fast and reliable. I'm so happy I bought it.
1410010
About3 to 4 hours. Battery isn't a strong point here. I didn't buy it to use the battery however, so I'm pleased with it. Really a grade A laptop. I'm sure this varies based on task and performance settings.
1772866
I use it on Bluetooth, which uses more battery. I am a writer (maybe only in my own mind), but I write about 1500 words every day. The battery lasts through 3-4 hours of continuous use, and then I just plug it into the charger on my desk, and continue on, tethered to the wire for a couple of hours. It is amazingly light, and amazingly accurate. I have used many headsets. This is the best, hands down!
19327
The battery life is very good. I was surprised that I can sit at my kitchen table for 3 hours and the battery goes down to about 65%. Now that is very good for this laptop. I think you will enjoy the power that this puts out. Have a great time with it.
1982112
I've had it few a months now and no problem with it to date. I use it almost everyday at work. I have even got a few co-works to pick one up. Oh and the battery life is great on it.
167415
I bought both a 6 and 9 cell in May 2012 and depending on the duration needed I alternate. The 9 cell always gives me at least way over 2.5 hours for note taking. Seems to be the same now as when I bought it.
2144591
Had mine for about 4 hours. Everything seems to be as advertised. The screen is great. Handwriting recognition is amazingly good. So far it has not made a mistake recognizing my hand-written input. I have two recommendations so far. The keyboard is light and flat, but without a cover or case it seems awkward for travel - but I don't want to go on the road with NO keyboard. I had one of these that I used with a previous PDA: http://www.amazon.com/Stowaway-Ultra-Slim-Bluetooth-Keyboard-Handhelds/dp/B0002OKCXE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1299207948&sr=8-1 and it paired up beautifully with the eee slate. Comes in a nice leather case and folds up VERY compact. I think that is what I'll take when I travel, and use the Microsoft keyboard for use at home. I also recommend: http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Secure-Digital-Capacity-Memory/dp/B003FVG3PC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1299208145&sr=1-1 It doubles the disk space on the ep121 and seems to work great. Transfer of a large video file between the sd card and the solid-state drive was at speeds of just over 10MB/s.
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Onenote, Some Lenovo apps(Support, Kindle, Settings, Quicksnip, app shop, system update), Lenovo driver settings, all the basic windows 8 software, skype, Free trial to office, Evernote free trial(Onenote is far better due to offline availability), and I could go on it's a pretty neat package but there's A LOT of free stuff on the store with upgradability that's well worth it. If you're into sketching I highly recommend getting sketchbook express the stylus that comes with it works well with SE. Also if you do plan to get the tablet make sure to update everything drivers, intel graphics accelerator, and the apps before you go to windows 8.1. It will make your experience with it a whole helluva lot better. Cheers!
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I just got the 16GB for Christmas. After reading all the battery posts, the first thing I did was charge it fully, then play it until the battery died. I got 20+ hours. I think a lot has to do with how often the screen is "lit". If you're constantly shuffling through, picking songs, adjusting volume etc. i think one would get less life than just playing it like I did (the screen was black most of the time since I wasn't adjusting anything). And of course, i would expect video or games to kill the battery even quicker. That would be a good test, play a video straight through and see the life. I don't have any videos loaded, so I can't really test that.
1652308
The battery has lasted for a full work day for me, doing word processing and office tasks. The battery was down to about 30% at the end of the day.
1701449
Hi Edward! Thank you for your inquiry! Battery will last 6 hours Aiste BisonOffice
1195707
I usually get about 2 hours or less of intensive gaming out of it (Crysis 3 or heavily modded Skyrim on ultra settings, for example). With just web browsing or simple applications I get about 5 hours of continuous use. I can run one charge an entire day as a student by simply making it sleep when I'm not using it. The wake up time is only a couple seconds, but it only takes 5 seconds to boot up anyway so I usually just shut it down if I won't use it for a couple hours.
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I use it at school. Fully charged, it can last me 5-6 hours or so, depending on if I shut it down, or just let it sleep