“How long does the battery last before requiring recharge?”
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I've been getting 5-6 hours of run time doing routine, non-demanding tasks (e-mail, internet, documents, spreadsheets) operating at 75% screen brightness and using "Better Performance" battery settings. With "Power Saving" battery settings, that goes up about an hour or so. The battery is a 3-cell 42Wh lithium ion battery, reasonably typical for this size laptop at this price.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.How long the battery lasts depends both on how you configured the laptop's power-saving options and what software you are running. I left my laptop idling on battery power overnight, and a little over 7 hours later when I next checked the laptop, it had already shut itself off. At starup, a diagnostic warned the battery was down to 5% and advised plugging in a charger. After doing that and booting Windows 10, there were several suggestions for extending the battery life, including: - allowing the laptop to go to sleep and power down after so many minutes of inactivity, especially when on battery power, - dimming the screen to something less than 100% brightness when on battery power, and - entering a battery-saver mode that saves power when the remaining battery capacity falls below a configurable theshold. So, YMMV.
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