Ah the woes of copy paste, the 3rd reporting with Max performance and lowest brightness should read “CPU Speed Max Performance and running at ~1 GHz” naturally. :)

I think battery eater would empty my battery in 100 minutes or so… no luck here with that LED screen! :(

Ok here are some facts about my Q1P model number NP-Q1-V002/SEA.

Standard 3-cell battery.
Wear level: 7%
Full capacity: 26640 mWh

Battery Manager Rate: Normal
Screen at LOWEST brightness (1/8)
CPU Speed Dynamic Switching and running at ~600 MHz
NHC -8,92W (Wireless On) and -7,737 (Wireless Off)

Battery Manager Rate: Normal
Screen at HIGHEST brightness (8/8)
CPU Speed Dynamic Switching and running at ~600 MHz
NHC -10,034W (Wireless On) and -9,613 (Wireless Off)

All wattage numbers are reported when the computer has
idled a bit to settle on 1-3% CPU load. The charge rate
seems to fluctuate somewhat even at idle. At times it
jumps up and down 1 watt.

Now lets see the same numbers with More CPU power!

Battery Manager Rate: Max Performance
Screen at LOWEST brightness (1/8)
CPU Speed Max Performance and running at ~600 MHz
NHC -10,29W (Wireless On) and -8,136 (Wireless Off)

Battery Manager Rate: Max Performance
Screen at HIGHEST brightness (8/8)
CPU Speed Max Performance and running at ~1 GHz
NHC -11,333W (Wireless On) and -10,49 (Wireless Off)

So my Q1P seems to draw about 2 watts more than Kevins and some others. I guess the LED panel is something they have sneaked into the production at a later stage and some of us just got unlucky and got the old one! :(

Stewe: you should run battery calibration tool in bios to get it back..

My standard Q1 battery still gives me about 2 hours of use, give-or-take ten minutes, even though NHC is reporting a “wear rate” of 30%. (I left it running in the case once, and it hasn’t been the same since.) Before the wipeout I used to routinely get 2.5 hours on the 3-cell.

Getting only an hour out of it sounds like a fried battery to me, too.

— Steve

That sounds like a battery problem for sure. I routinely got 2+ hours on the Q1 standard battery which at this point is 8 months old.

i think the celeron models have a defective standard battery. the q1p probably has batterys that are doing what they should have been doing in the first place. 2-3 hrs real world usage.

my q1′s standard battery is only giving me an 1hr of usage. i’m trying to return it to samsung.

Is there a way to get the brighter screen to the q1. The q1 isnt bright enough on the low settings. And to watch a movies the brightness level has to all the way up. And that kills the battery.

Grimster, thanks for cracking open your unit and checking; I haven’t done that yet. I didn’t sit by the Q1P when I ran the test, so I can’t confirm that the screen shut off during the test or not; all I can do is run it again, which I’ll do today or tomorrow.

I can tell that during real time usage, I used the Q1P last night for about 45 minutes with WiFi on. I checked the battery level at that time and it was around 73%. I then put the unit in sleep mode for dinner; roughly another hour. After I woke it up, I used it for another 1.5 hours, some of which that time was used to also run an external optical drive. I was doing a long installation (Office 2007) and saw the battery level warning icon in my tray so at that time I plugged it in. Roughly got 2.25 hours with an hour of sleep mode in the middle, which is more than I used to get with the Q1. I’ll re-run the tests of course….

I should also mention that I had e-mail conversation with Steve at Carrypad yesterday and shared some Notebook Hardware Control data. In a relatively idle state, the Q1P was drawing around 7.5 to 8.5 watts with WiFi on. Turning the WiFi off yielded a drain in the 6.75 to 7.5 Watts. Bear in mind that all Q1 models have a 29 W/hr battery and that on my prior Q1 the drain was in the 8.7 to 10.8 watt range. I can’t see the Pentium making that difference but again, I’m willing to do more testing when time permits.

Confirmed High voltage inverter! NO LED SCREEN!!! I just bought my Q1p last week also. Model : NP-Q1-V002/SEA

Just took my Q1p apart and there is a high voltage inverter with the classic pink and white high voltage wires leading into the screen. This means there is a lamp inside the screen and NO LEDs.

I am NOT getting 2:38 on battery eater but only 1:56. IMO the tests are flawed. I dont believe any Q1ps have the LED screen. What I think happened is that he ran his Q1p with the autosceen shut off feature on. Hense the 2:38 he got.

i thought it had a mouse pointer. if not that is a big deficiency in the samsung. perhaps we’ll have to wait for that kidc model to make an appearance.