topic Re: Vaio S3VP batteries in PCs & Accessories

Vaio S3VP batteries

kobit — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:14:54 GMT

Hello,

I have just bought Vaio as in topic - S3VP.
Very nice machine, extremely fast, great screen and so on...

There is one thing, however which worries me a bit.
According to specification this machine should work
up to 5 hours on batteries.

Mine work no more than 2h 15min.
I tested battery life just setting screen brightness to 4,
sound volume to 1 or 0 and started Sony screen saver.

As this is very new machine - about 5 days old maybe
it needs some special battery charge cycles before it gets
full capacity?

Any ideas? Or should I just call service to replace my batteries?

thanks,

kobit

Re: Vaio S3VP batteries

kee-lo_ — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:07:06 GMT

Hi

The machine will only last 5hrs on extreme minimum battery use, that means low screen brightness, no screensavers, no extra hardware and low CPU usage.

Re: Vaio S3VP batteries

kobit — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:38:15 GMT

Hm, thats surpsising a bit, I heard that S series can allow web browsing
for 4 - 5 hours using wireless internet connection.
It is not a heavy CPU use but anyway it consumes power a bit, I doubt it takes
less then just sony screen saver with all other HW turned off, like DVD, WiFi, Bluetooth. I switched brightness to very low as well.

Whats the point of telling people that batteries can last for 5 hours if you can
not do anything during the time?

kobit

Re: Vaio S3VP batteries

kee-lo_ — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:42:08 GMT

No idea,

Have you checked www.vaio-link.com for a KB article?