laptop madness

[blade911]

hi everone

 

i recently acquired a new hp laptop dv series, core 2 duo, 1 gig ram with an nvidia 256 card. imus say its very fast compared to my pc. the render times are 5 times better than the p4

 

k now heres the prob. i was runnin autocad n max, vray n the battery dies out in an hour n 10min max. is this supposed to be like this?? are there more powerful batteries i can get? the dealer said tat itll be like tat if its under heavy use n maybe the battery life will grow with use.

 

wat do i do

[alikashan]

battery life always decreases. and normally laptops last in battery mod 2-3 hours tops.

[IHAB]

normaly my battery lasts for 8-9 hrs while net surfing,typing or so on

but when trying to render without the adapter it lasts for 1 to 1.5hrs tops

tis is because renders take top processing power which eats battery charge,forgot to say its an hp centrino single core..

anyway if you are forced to, you can start render then close the screen either by power settings or closing tray(also with power settings set not to let the LT hibernate),this may save power by 40%

[AJLynn]

When you're not running anything computationally intensive, your system is running in low power mode. When you render, the CPU is on full. What you'e seeing is normal.

 

You'd need to check with HP to see if they have any better battery options.