Comments on: Samsung NC10 battery life: 8 hours? I don’t think so.

By: orb9220

orb9220 — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:06:46 +0000

Yep just tested mine. Screen at 4 bars which is quite viewable and not dark. Wifi On browsing and such for 5hrs 34mins and battery still showed 1hr 12mins left.

So all you non-believers instead of posting speculation and disbelief. Maybe you should hold off until the stats are in. Tho for actual use it is not the advertise 8hrs. I do see a 6-7 hrs of actual use on a regular basis. And solid 7 with wifi off?

And disabling Bluetooth and webcam which many don’t use will add to quicker boot time and less power consumption also.

By: netbookwallpapers

netbookwallpapers — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:20:59 +0000

I have an nc10 and when having it on silent mode and only doing something like word processing i have seen my estimated time go up to 9 hours, but when doing multiple tasks it it between 4-6 hours.

Me and a friend both have NC10s and we have nearly the same classes and we see who can get the most out of there battery by putting it into hibernations between classes or turning off the back light the second you have stopped typing. It truly is a game of gods.

By: Bookworm51485

Bookworm51485 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:35:08 +0000

Personally I do think that people exaggerate with the NC10, even users. I think they need some reason to justify spending an extra $100 for it. I just had some guy on Amazon claim to get 9 hours of battery life. The Wind I have doesn’t even get 9 hours of life with a 9 cell battery.

Also I just saw an article where they battery tested the NC10 and got a max of 7 hours of battery life, but that was with everything off and the screen brightness just above not visible. I honestly can’t see it being worth the price they’re pushing it for. Especially now with better models of it’s competitors coming out, at a still lower price. The new U115 was tested and came out with 10.5 hours of battery life, WITH wifi and it’s got a hybrid system. What’s Samsung doing? I’d heard they had plans for a 12-inch ‘netbook’ but honestly I think if you’re going to go for 12 inches, you might as well add an optical drive because it’s not a netbook any longer.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:01:04 +0000

I Have had NC10 for a while now and the battery life is very good it normally lasts 7 hours so not quiet 8.Also it would last longer but its not to clever to drain lithium batteries completly. it becomes a pain to use on max battery setting, processer scales back and screen is dark.
Battery is 5200mah

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:48:36 +0000

Brett, that’s awesome battery life! One question that I haven’t been able to get anyone to answer: what’s the battery rating in terms of mAh?

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:44:31 +0000

Well I can report that I get 7-8 hours from mine, depending on whether I have the wifi on or not.

By: Cptnodegard

Cptnodegard — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:53:27 +0000

I use my aspire one Xp version for about 5 hours straight when at school and that leaves me with 30% battery left. portable mode, not max battery. so 8 hours isnt farfetched

By: Lorie Ghamy

Lorie Ghamy — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:56:29 +0000

7 to 10 Hours with EEECTL Look at there : http://www.blogeee.net/2008/10/13/guide-eeectl-processeur-a-2-ghz-autonomie-de-7-a-10-heures/ Pierre Lecourt (From Bloggeeee.net) speak about 7 to 10 Hours with an Aus 901 with the use of the free EECTL app. And 2 Ghz become available for 1.6 GHz Atom. http://www.blogeee.net/2008/10/13/guide-eeectl-processeur-a-2-ghz-autonomie-de-7-a-10-heures/ Settings are given and this program is available for 900A,901,1000... At this time, for a consommation test, an EeePC 901 is running with a Batterie BlueTrade 9800 mAh 100% filled and the processor at 1 Ghz. http://www.blogeee.net/2008/10/15/live-eeepc901-batterie-bluetrade-eeectl/#more-1135 Viva Atom ! Shame to Apple for having forget it yasterday !

By: NeoteriX

NeoteriX — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:00:43 +0000

re: Take the ASUS 901 though. Its a top-notch design and can reach 6-7hrs on cheap 6-cell batteries.

I don’t know that much about the 901, but I already see two clear reasons why it would have a battery life better than what we see on the Wind: a screen that is 1″ smaller and an SSD. Since it’s clear the NC10 has neither of these, where can the efficiency gains come from?

(not that I don’t want to believe you, my pre-order for the NC10 is already in!)

By: Steve Paine

Steve Paine — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:32:28 +0000

Kevin.
It would definitely be good if it was a 6+ hours device with 6-cells.
8hrs is probably the theoretical limit (Jeita test) so take 30% from that for real life (wifi on, 50% backlight, web browsing) and you get to something just under 6hrs.

Steve.