I bought a refurbished Lenovo X301 laptop. On a full charge I get around 3 hours of battery life?
Should I assume that the battery in my system is used, and not working at 100%. I have read in reviews of the x301 getting 5 hours of real battery time. Is there any way to track the age of my refurbished system to find the age of the battery? Re: Low Power Mode; Do you know of a way to do this without compromising the screen brightness?
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Battery life also depends on the power settings of the machine. If you put it into low power mode, you'll get 5 hours.
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I cannot tell you how to check the age of the battery, but 3 hours is pretty good. My new Toshiba only gets about that. I bought a refurb Dell and the battery wouldn't even last one hour. I'd consider 3 hours pretty good. How often do you go three hours without getting near an outlet?
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3 hours is considered very good. The screen is the most power hungry so the brightness is usually sacrificed first. You will get used to adjusting to it if you use it often without a charger. I have a old Thinkpad T23 and it could only last 35 minutes. When I got a new Thinkpad T500 with 9 cell battery I was shocked to get 5-8 hours of battery. Just remember refurbished always means it had a previous owner.
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Well you don't know if the battery is new or not, unless you try it out. You can get 5hours battery life by lowering the screen brightness. There is a way of tracking your battery age, usually written at the back of it where the Information about the battery is. Look around it carefully and read every bit or paste me a picture on the question so i can see. My battery said 04/07 which means, it was built in April 2007 and it is starting to degrade after about 2years cause i looked at the date i got it. It shows you how well i took care of the battery. Not sure how many cycles i've done, between 400 - 450 i think. I never used it alot. It's starting to degrade now. Well there are ways to extend the battery time in the laptop such as, using the Wireless Network can drain the battery or the paticular tasks your doing etc.
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