How long does the battery in this laptop last while watching movies?
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I can rock it for more than 3 hours watching movies stored locally on my hard drive with the screen brightness turned down and the wifi turned off.
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The battery will last for the entire duration of a standard 1.5 hour movie. After six months of use, the battery will be about dead if I were to watch a movie with it unplugged.Remember, with lithium ion batteries - to get the longest life, you need to plug it in to 100% charge, and leave it unplugged until dead. Rinse and repeat and this will get you the most life out of any rechargeable batteryEdit: this is also assuming the movie is all you will be running and don't have programs open in the background or are waiting for IMs or phone calls on Skype as this will of course ask more of the battery The battery will last for the entire duration of a standard 1.5 hour movie. After six months of use, the battery will be about dead if I were to watch a movie with it unplugged.Remember, with lithium ion batteries - to get the longest life, you need to plug it in to 100% charge, and leave it unplugged until dead. Rinse and repeat and this will get you the most life out of any rechargeable batteryEdit: this is also assuming the movie is all you will be running and don't have programs open in the background or are waiting for IMs or phone calls on Skype as this will of... » Read More The battery will last for the entire duration of a standard 1.5 hour movie. After six months of use, the battery will be about dead if I were to watch a movie with it unplugged.Remember, with lithium ion batteries - to get the longest life, you need to plug it in to 100% charge, and leave it unplugged until dead. Rinse and repeat and this will get you the most life out of any rechargeable batteryEdit: this is also assuming the movie is all you will be running and don't have programs open in the background or are waiting for IMs or phone calls on Skype as this will of course ask more of the battery « Show Less
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I love netflix, so I watch movies all the time on my battery and it last through two and a half leaving about 71% and if you continue watching like a half hour show or something it goes down to about 65%. So its very good with battery, especially if you lower the brightness with energy saver.
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There is no DVD player in this netbook, so I have never watched movies on it. However, my grandson plays video games online for more than two hours.
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More than 90 minutes. Maybe 3 hours. Keyboard problems. This is an Acer with gateway name. Look elsewhere.The keys are flat type. Eventually stop working. Same as my Acer. Exactly the same machine.
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For normal use the laptop gives you 2 hours and half, and for extreme use just like an hour, now for the battery life I think is larger than 2 year, since I bought this laptop in september of 2012 and the battery died at november 2014, but I have been using it in very extreme conditions for like 16 hours a day every day since I bought it, playing video games, editing videos, hydrological modelling, running virtual machines and it never defraud me.
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Two factors are to consider in answering this. One is the use to which the Samsung Laptop will be used. If it sits idle, or is used for reading/surfing around the web, battery might last 4-5 hours. If it plays a game on battery it might last an hour. The second factor is in regard to the power-saving settings. Is the backlight turned off or left on, or is the laptop set at high-performance?I hope this proves helpful.MParsons
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My husband is the one who uses the headphones, and he says that the battery lasts long enough to watch a couple of movies, and take around 10 minutes to recharge. He also says that the headphones can be used while plugged in to recharge.
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Mine lasts about 7~8 hours for regular use when I use the Quite Office Setting.I know it's still better than any other laptops as to battery life.
306609
I don't use the laptop that much. I haven't timed it but the battery lasts a couple of hours. It's enough to get what I want done.
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The average battery time in my new toshiba laptop is approximately 4 hours.
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Mine lasted longer. It probably depends on what you were doing with the laptop. My daughter uses it all day at the hospital. Were you streaming video constantly (uses both network and drive storage)? That would drain your battery faster.
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It's between 5-10 hours depends on what you use it for. I read work stuff and watch movies/shows and it lasts about 10 hours for continuous use.
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A few hours (I haven't clocked it), I think. I've watched a movie and then a tv show afterward. The cool thing is that you can plug it in to charge while you're using it, so that works great!
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The battery life is about 2 and a half hours. It is sold with a wall charger. If you are watching something and the battery is about to die, it will flash a warning box so that you can plug in the wall charger and not interrupt your movie.
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Sorry, haven't really noticed. My kids can go through a whole movie with some battery life left.
1410009
I haven't had mine long so I haven't worn the battery down, but in-the-box new my laptop has been lasting about 4 hours while playing Steam games, so it's pretty decent.
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Depends : Heavy internet surfing or Netflix battery lasts 4 to 5 hours. Music listening or document writing gives 6 or more hours.
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As I recall, the battery charge lasted about one movie. I used it with the battery and on the adapter maybe 6 times--it died the same week the warranty ran out.
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Lasts very little. In my 8Gb card I believe I should be able to fit about 74min of HD movie in MP4, but the battery won`t last anywhere near that. I still have to do some further testings, but my guess is that it lasts about 25~35 minutes. Since I haven`t done any tests with the camera only shooting movies, I am not sure about these values, it`s just a rough guess. Anyway, I find that the biggest problem is that it only warns you that the battery is about to end when it is already over, so you don`t get any extra seconds once the battery sign starts blinking (missed some great shots because of that). I carry two batteries with me and I am buying a third one, simply because this camera deserves it (video quality is superb and photo quality is good), I am overall happy with the camera. You just have to adapt yourself to change the batteries more frequently.
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Hi, you can get a 3 hour movie in, but I think it's longer, just haven't watched beyond a major movie. Yes, while battery is charging you can use device.