15 hours of battery life-MSI Wind U115 Reality Check

[AnXioZ]

MSI's never been a slouch when it comes to its Wind series, but this new U115 seems to be something else entirely. In tests done by the folks at Eee-PC.de, the laptop ranged from 5.5 hours to 15 hours of battery life, based on level of usage. Even 5.5 hours is good for continuous use, but we could imagine all sorts of happiness with 15 hours of battery -- like camping. The laptop gets some of its battery mojo from its hybrid storage system, which allows the laptop to run entirely off of its 8GB of SSD memory, with the 160GB hard drive spun down to save power. The SSD is user-replaceable, if you don't mind a little warranty voiding, and the folks at nvision have thrown caution to the wind in ripping apart their U115 for our viewing pleasure.

The Test at Nvision.pl (http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnvision.pl%2Fnews-ext-12835.html&sl=pl&tl=en&history_state0=)

Via Engadget.

That is definitely remarkable! I wonder what they did to expand the battery life that much. I am most certain that it cannot be the new hybrid system that they are using, since that would imply that netbooks with SSDs would be getting similar results. Can it be the new Atom? :rolleyes:

[Frank M]

Can it be the new Atom? :rolleyes:

It's not the new Atom, but the old -- the difference being that instead
of the N270+945GSE+ICH7M combo for netbooks, they used the
Z530+US15W (Silverthorne + Poulsbo) combo (like they always should
have :rolleyes: )

Also, using a DoM-like SSD and turning off the 2.5"HDD, they could save a
lot of power.

For my Core Solo Vaio, xp predicts ~12hrs with wifi off and backlight
down to 1 in idle, which drops to ~9-10 with light office use and
7-7.5 with wifi and light browsing -- so with such a low power cpu+
chipset and a large battery, these results are not surprising.

[drizzt5]

Nice, 15 hours would be sweet.

I want to see a test with everything turned on though for as long as possible. If it still does 3+ hours with full usage then I will be very very impressed.

[Frank M]

Did you click the link? :p:

5:31 with battery eater classic test: pi, opengl bench, heavy disk read,
full brightness.

[drizzt5]

Did you click the link? :p:

5:31 with battery eater classic test: pi, opengl bench, heavy disk read,
full brightness.

Damn..... I want.

Nope, I just read the quote :)

[Knight203]

..Do...want..

[Smartidiot89]

So intel decided to give up on their god useless chip which drains 5x more then the Intel Atom? Good news, to late I already have a netbook with 945 in it:rofl:

[Frank M]

So intel decided to give up on their god useless chip which drains 5x more then the Intel Atom?

No, unfortunately.
Z5x0 + Poulsbo are still mainly for MIDs and are rare in netbooks
(Dell's mini 12, Sony Vaio P, some Kohjinsha and this are the exceptions).

The rest of the netbooks still use N270+945G or N280+945G, and some
are to be released with N280+GS40 later this year.

[deathman20]

Now thats some battery life!

[Smartidiot89]

Ofcourse this is possible when Intel isn't being a r*tard putting a utterly crap chipset with the Atom platform that drains several times MORE then the CPU.

[gillll]

man ! i don't have the u115 but just bought the 100+ which has 6 cell which gives 5 hours of working.
i have 1 min screensaver 2 min monitor shutdown and 10 min to hiberbate. checked 5 hours!
that's also alot :D

this msi wind is a perfect netbook.