Battery Life? How long does it last with regular intermittent use (checking e-mail occasionally but mainly just sitting on the desk while I work) How long does it last playing world of warcraft or Call of Duty?
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I just recently purchased this mouse, and so for I like it, but the battery life is not very good I play World of Warcraft a couple of hours a day, and I have to recharge this mouse every day or two. Logitech's explanation is that they sacrificed battery life for performance, since it is a gaming mouse. This makes some sense. We'll see how it goes over time.
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Depends very much on what you are running. Using WIFI and doing typical work activities such as email, web browsing, word, etc., I have seen over 9 hours. If you're watching a movie streamed via 4GLTE the battery life does suffer. I have not timed it, but 6 hours seems pretty close under those contitions.
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Hi. I would say about 5 hours. I do not play games and am not a heavy user, but I do stay online for long periods of time. ALso, when you do charge it up, it charges surprisingly quickly.
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Hard to say exactly, but I do know that when I put new batteries in and have the LED on it will last about 30 hours (I say this b/c I game about 5 hours per day and it lasts almost a week), but once it starts to die I just turn off the LED and I get another few hours out of it. Just make sure to turn it off when you aren't using it and it should be fine. Being that it's wireless and has LED this mouse actually lasts a long time. I've had this mouse for 3+ months and I have no issues with it whatsoever.
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I haven't used it for gaming, but it's great for Solidworks. Hope this helps. Also I would suggest checking out other brands. Pros of this laptop: lightweight, large screen, decent battery life for the first ~2 years. Cons:Battery starts to die off in the 3rd year, green line appears down the screen, sometimes the screen blacks out for no apparent reason.
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For me it's about an hour, maybe a little longer on gaming mode. About 2hr and 15 min on balanced mode, just depends on what you are running, brightness etc. It has never died on me when I needed it though.
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for gaming i really like the alien ,longer battery life, quick response does not get to hot, just happy with it big screen as well plus you can try it out for thirty days and if you are not happy with it you can get something else. i kept mine
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I've had it last as long as 2 hrs of gaming. Hope that helps. I'm curious what others are getting as well.
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I definitely would not recommend for gaming. I use it on my desktop at work. It is fine for that, but it does pause quite a bit at times.
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From my experience the battery does not last longer than 5 hours but it's a not a big deal for me because I don't play all day. You can buy 2 gamepads and always keep one charging if you wanna play all day.
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It depends on your performance settings and what you're doing on the laptop. I use mine with high performance and generally use light programs (MS Office) and web browsing and it generally lasts about 2-4 hours depending. The life of the battery can extend quite beyond that I believe by turning off features and downgrading performance, but I have not really explored those features fully.
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Remarkably good, but I haven't measured it. On all day yesterday, actually using it probably a total of 3-4 hours with sleep mode between uses, and still good life in it. Only time it died was at the end of that day I started a download of Windows 8.1 and forgot to plug it in--died about 75% of the way thru after a couple more hours.
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You can dim the screen, turn off blue tooth and the wifi (when you're not using it) and shorten the time it waits unused until it turns itself off. Most of these are in the Power Management section. There are F key buttons to toggle some of them. I believe there is also a setting that will allow the computer to drain the battery down closer to zero charge. As it is I believe it turns off with about 25% remaining as a margin of safety. I did everything I could think of and don't get anything like 14 hours of life. It is beyond mere marketing hype to claim 14 hours. Really it is a lie. Perhaps I now get 10 hours.
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Saul, I do the same thing, I game heavily, and use it in class. I keep the settings light weight for on battery, ramp to 100% on power. This means I do not game while on battery. While in class using word, power point, Firefox on wireless, downloading and uploading schoolwork and having several tabs in FF open at the same time I get around 4 hours off of a full charge. I'm actually very impressed I was expecting at most 2 hours under that load. But the ssd and smart power management really makes a difference. Hope this helps!
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The battery life has been pretty great for me. I've played Star Craft 2, a very resource-intensive game, for a few hours before plugging in. You might eventually consider a laptop cooling pad, as the small case can sometimes lead to overheating.
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Battery life is about four hours standard. If you run it in eco mode, you can get it to last up to six hours. Eco mode makes everything very slow, though. I would think it could probably run Minecraft.
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I use it for everything except movie watching (I use a chromecast for that). Battery life is actually pretty good. It does not handle super graphics intense games, but It can run Sims 3 for example on the fastest speed with pretty good ease. More graphics intense games would probably struggle a bit or need to have settings lowered. I have been able to play games for at least two hours (maybe three) without the battery going dead. Web browsing and word processing could last a much greater amount of time.