Acer Aspire 8930G Owner's Lounge

[shaneee]

hi spaanplaat, did you already send your notebook to mxm upgrade

[lctrumpet]

I think you are being unfair about the battery use. After a while these cells lose their potency anyway and so if you want to use the laptop primarily for mobile use, I would advise buying a new battery after a year.

As for the X9100 overheating, I've not had any problems - though I have my 8930g on most of the day as a desktop replacement powered by the mains.

Not trying to pick a fight here, but my buddy got a Dell 17" the same time I did. Same battery chemistry and everything. Even manufacturer (strangely. I'm not so sure how reliable the printing is on the batteries). His life is still at 2.5 hrs. Given, his is a smaller lappy size, plus he still has Vista HP on it.
Again, not trying to butt heads here, but maybe it'll give my perspective.
Cheers

[vrooom]

Not trying to pick a fight here, but my buddy got a Dell 17" the same time I did.

I don't want to fight anyone!

My experience of laptops and batteries is that after a year their performance tends to tail off and the more you charge these batteries (despite what the manufacturers say) you will see this happen. Whether or not using Vista over Win7 will improve battery performance is another matter entirely.

[lctrumpet]

I don't want to fight anyone!

My experience of laptops and batteries is that after a year their performance tends to tail off and the more you charge these batteries (despite what the manufacturers say) you will see this happen. Whether or not using Vista over Win7 will improve battery performance is another matter entirely.

Haha, Touché, sir
I'll be getting a new battery, for sure now!

[chriscatt]

Hi, so far I've got seven acer win7 laptops, so far, two of them are for my own personal use. I've not noticed any deterioration in battery life since installing win7. I've not seen any other references to 'an issue' either here or on any other forum, yet either ;-)
Chris

[snowyoneill]

you can use the windows 7 command line tool powercfg to find out some stats on your battery.

Use the command "powercfg -energy". It will tell you about your current battery life, and how its total capacitance has depleted.

Shaun

[lctrumpet]

Hi, so far I've got seven acer win7 laptops, so far, two of them are for my own personal use. I've not noticed any deterioration in battery life since installing win7. I've not seen any other references to 'an issue' either here or on any other forum, yet either ;-)
Chris

How long have you had them?

you can use the windows 7 command line tool powercfg to find out some stats on your battery.

Use the command "powercfg -energy". It will tell you about your current battery life, and how its total capacitance has depleted.

Shaun

Okay that's very odd. My name is Shaun too!

[chriscatt]

How long have you had them?



Okay that's very odd. My name is Shaun too!

Hi, varies, from a few weeks to about a year, my main school laptop, a 5920G. Still seems to e giving me as much as it did from new when it originally Vista on it...
Chris

[lctrumpet]

Hi, varies, from a few weeks to about a year, my main school laptop, a 5920G. Still seems to e giving me as much as it did from new when it originally Vista on it...
Chris

I'm gonna go ahead and assume they're at different volts etc. Maybe it's just the 8930g battery :-/
Either way, still trying to fix the prob. The command line didn't really help either, btw,

[lctrumpet]

Okay, so, little bit of advice. NEVER accidentally step on the cord going to the laptop...
Accidentally stepped on it yesterday, and the cable split open, and the inner insulation split open too, and the two beams crossed... ... and everyone at my table got shocked to the point of them either jumping out of their chairs or falling out HA. good times...