Acer Aspire Battery Life

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I have had my Acer aspire (2020) for a couple of months now and, for a first
laptop, I am fairly impressed.



One issue I do have is the battery life. Acer advertises around 6 hours and
this was a factor in me choosing this particular laptop. I followed the
battery charging instructions when the pc was new but I am getting around 3
hours battery life. I am sure the battery life will vary depending what
applications are running, is there a way to check my battery life against a
benchmark? Or should I recondition (i.e fully discharge > fully charge on
multiple occasions) the batteries?



Thanks

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"Tony Maddocks" <tony@boswellsxxx.net> wrote in
news:4149f676$0$22765$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk:

> I have had my Acer aspire (2020) for a couple of months now and, for a
> first laptop, I am fairly impressed.
>
> One issue I do have is the battery life. Acer advertises around 6
> hours and this was a factor in me choosing this particular laptop. I
> followed the battery charging instructions when the pc was new but I
> am getting around 3 hours battery life. I am sure the battery life
> will vary depending what applications are running, is there a way to
> check my battery life against a benchmark? Or should I recondition
> (i.e fully discharge > fully charge on multiple occasions) the
> batteries?

The 6 hour spec assumes that your built-in wireless is turned off, and your
screen brightness is turned way down. I have an Aspire 2000, and it was
the store model, so it was plugged in all day every day until i bought it.
I get about 3 hours with wireless on and my screen pretty bright.

As far as battery life/conditioning goes, there really isn't a clear
census. But do fully discharge/fully charge every couple of weeks or so.