His Deeds Are Dust » battery http://hisdeedsaredust.com surveying sub-optimal solutions Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:52:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Samsung X120 battery life http://hisdeedsaredust.com/2009/10/samsung-x120-battery-life/ http://hisdeedsaredust.com/2009/10/samsung-x120-battery-life/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:33:07 +0000 Paul Flo Williams http://hisdeedsaredust.com/?p=88 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.

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