Dell battery life?

magpie · 2005-08-10 10:14:20

I'm using a Dell inspiron 2600 which was fobbed off on me at work. I noticed the battery life I was getting was pretty poor so ordered a 'new' battery through the IT Dept. I'm still only getting about 45 mins battery life which basically means its a small desktop, not a laptop. From those of you in the know, what sort of…

10-08-2005 11:14AM

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I'm using a Dell inspiron 2600 which was fobbed off on me at work. I noticed the battery life I was getting was pretty poor so ordered a 'new' battery through the IT Dept. I'm still only getting about 45 mins battery life which basically means its a small desktop, not a laptop.

From those of you in the know, what sort of battery life should I expect?

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it depends on what processor is in the laptop, if its a celeron or pentium 4 processor then you will get crap battery life as these processors tend to drain batteries quickly. what are the specs of the laptop?

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