Eee PC Battery Test – 7 Hours, 29 Minutes
I was at an all-day seminar last week, sporting my Asus Eee 1000HE netbook. I brought my AC adapter, but I figured it would be a great chance to really test Asus’ claimed 9.5-hour battery.
I started the day at about 8:45am with a fully-charged battery.
When I decided to actually watch the meter, I tweeted that I had 93% left. The battery meter estimated 7:42 hours.
I kept an eye on the battery meter for a while, and I realized the netbook wouldn’t make it all day at full power. At 10:17am, I turned off wifi and bluetooth. I also dimmed my screen to the lowest setting and exited unnecessary programs.
I put the netbook into sleep mode for about 20 minutes while I ate lunch. And I plugged it in for 1 minute, when I got scared that the battery wouldn’t last all day. But I quickly pulled the plug back out and decided to keep the test going.
After lunch, I still had over half my battery left: 53%.
At 2:15pm, I had 2:23 hours left on the meter, 33%.
The conference ended at 4:19pm. At that time, I had 4% left on the meter, an estimated 15 minutes.
To sum it up, the battery lasted 7 hours, 29 minutes (subtracting the 20 minutes in sleep mode at lunch time).
I ran Firefox and Word 2007 all day, but that’s about it. I did power on the wifi during a few breaks to check my email, but it stayed off most of the day.
I don’t think you’ll get 9.5 hours out of this battery, but 7.5 hours is nothing to scoff at. If you can plug in the Eee for a few minutes sometime during the day, I’ll bet you could keep trucking way past 8 hours.
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September 26th, 2009
Thanks. It seems to have solved my problem as well.
October 11th, 2009
Incredible really for that much extra life in a battery. Keep us informed
October 12th, 2009
I purchased one of the earlier Eee PC laptops and the battery seemed to last for about 5 hours. I’m sure they’ve gotten better within those two years.
I never really tested it though and used it at full capacity most of the time, running notepad, firefox and whatever else I needed at the time. Still a great little laptop for travel though.
November 16th, 2009
I am looking forward to read your next freat article… Nice article, thanks.
November 16th, 2009
Wow ! here i got such worthy tips for how to check PC battery. I think here i can find some more tips and suggestions. I am going to check out other post.
November 17th, 2009
Incredible for that much extra life in a battery.I am looking forward to read your next article.Nice article, thanks.
November 17th, 2009
Hi, it such a nice way of battery check. According your detail i will try it to my PC battery.
November 18th, 2009
This is really nice information. I am going to try it out on my PC.
November 19th, 2009
thx for the info
November 20th, 2009
I have luminous UPS for my PC. Can i check the batter in same way as you suggest.