Samsung X120 battery life
October 21st, 2009
I’ve just charged my notebook’s battery fully, then allowed it to discharge while the machine was idle. First of all, I nobbled the power management settings in Fedora 11 to make sure that the screen stayed bright throughout, and it didn’t perform a neat shutdown when it guessed the battery was close to death.
I have the four cell Li-Ion battery, product ID AA-PB0TC4L, which Samsung claims will last four hours, based on BatteryMark tests.
It took 1 hour 53 minutes to discharge.
I present this figure without further comment because I don’t know whether this type of battery takes a few charge/discharge cycles to gain a longer life, or any other possible explanations.
very disappointing. I did not do extensive tests on my X120, but I expected at least 3h.
Did you turn of WLAN? Monitor brightness to the max?
I think there will be a 6cell battery for the X120 being released soon. I think about getting it, but the X120 bottom side will probably not be “flat” anymore, but with a “bump” as the 6cell battery is likely to be bigger.