I've just ordered the Vortex IV 17.3" (with GTX 880m, i7 4700, 240gb Kingston SSD, 1TB HDD) and was wondering what kind of battery life users of a similar setup are seeing whilst gaming / idle? Was mainly curious as the 800m series comes with the "battery Boost" technology, and it'll be interesting to see how much of a difference it makes!
Battery life on 17.3" Vortex IV?
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mantadog
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Not sure exactly, but gaming will be fairly short lived - probably to the point I wouldn't even consider it. GPU's like to be plugged into the wall anyway, batteries often can't provide the juice and they slow down making gaming a pointless IMO.
As far as total battery life on lower intensity, I can only go from my brothers laptop. its an i7, 675m and a HDD. He doesn't use the battery much but says it will do about 2-2.5 hours if your not doing anything much more than reading webpages or word processing. But that said he is using a different chassis with a different generation of GPU and CPU....
As far as total battery life on lower intensity, I can only go from my brothers laptop. its an i7, 675m and a HDD. He doesn't use the battery much but says it will do about 2-2.5 hours if your not doing anything much more than reading webpages or word processing. But that said he is using a different chassis with a different generation of GPU and CPU....
I'm in the navy and finding a power socket onboard can be a pain sometimes! The 880m is supposed to be fairly power efficient, when the laptop arrives I'll let you know how it performs