Laptop battery life help?

Hi,
I have recently placed an order for a laptop which i managed to get for $500 (AUD), the laptop is the HP Pavilion Sleekbook 14-B030TU.
I have been trying to find information on battery life but i have found a lot of the mixed review ranging from 2 hours to 5 hours. I am pretty torn on this decision because the price for the performance of this laptop is pretty good but the battery life of a laptop would be a big issue for me because it would not be for use at home.
Here are the specifications:
Size : 14-inch
CPU : 3rd Gen i5-3317u
HDD : 1TB SATA @ 5400 RPM
RAM : 4GB DDR3
GPU : Intel HD Graphics 4000
OS : Windows 8
Battery : 4-Cell (37 Whr)
Any information would really be appreciated cause i am pretty torn on this and i have to make the choice by tomorrow so i can cancel my order if necessary. if anyone knew of any alternatives that would be great too.
Answer #1
You can get a SSD but these devices are power hungry and your not going to get tablet like battery life from them.
Basically if you take it out of power saver mode and do anything resource hungry the expected battery time will plummet.
Answer #2
my worry isn’t getting an SSD it’s what the initial battery life of the laptop will be
Answer #3
SSD would increase it I meant because they use less power, Battery life is difficult to measure because it will very depending on your usage if your in power saver you will get somewhat close to the advertised time in high performance mode 2 hours sounds about right.
Answer #4
I googled it and couldn’t find any answer.
But as said above, It does depend on your usage.
Also, With most HP laptops, The battery can be replaced with a longer-lasting one.
The higher the mAh the better! But if long battery life is a must, I suggest you cancel
your order and look for another laptop that offers it. And for future cases – Better ask
questions first and order last!
HDDs use very little power to begin with, So it’s not like replacing it with SSD would make a huge difference in overall power consumption!
Answer #5
All in all the guys said the bare truth; the more you use it the battery will have about 2 and a half hours and degrade to an hour at least. Get 2 batteries dude if you’ll be working on important tasks. Save, replace with a full. And yes get the bigger, pardon higher mAh and therefore higher cost. HP is a biyatch conserning batteries, I’d choose another brand. I owned an HP was dissapointed with the battery life and to top it all the mobo died as soon as the coverage (what you call it) ended, my friend recently bought a nice Dell and get’s about 3 hours of work done. I’ll ask the specs if you haven’t already got the HP.
Now, I sold the battery and the charger, the drive I use on my desktop, sold the memory, Wi-fi I kept and yeah the DVD drive busted also. Worst investment ever.
I regret the fact that all electronics turned us into consumers and the damn corporate lackeys KNOW precisely when the thing is going to fail on you – hence the harsh words from me about HP.
Printers are great – but for a great price. But that’s another story.
Did you know there’s a lightbulb in Canada that works 24/7 for about 100 years a Belgium dude made it – and in this time of 2013 we still cannot figure out how he did it. And they started to record the lightbulb about 10 years ago – guess what: 2 cameras broke.
Also lady’s nylons first ever made were untearable – did you know what the company did? They sat the engineers down to make them tearable. Sorry for my misspelling I’m tired and eyes wide shut. So there you have it – consumerism, bad credits and everything is going to the shitter. Pardon my French.
Answer #6
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In relation to usage i am a university student so it would mostly be for use with Microsoft office programs, browsing the web, social networking, i play league of legends some times, listening to music etc. Yes unfortunately i made the mistake of ordering without doing a good amount of research. Thank you for your input.
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Thank you for the information, doesn’t look like i should bother with this laptop so it seems like i may have to cancel my order. I have never been much of a laptop guy, more of a build my own desktop guys, i like the fact that at least you have some more control over that and of course it is financially much better. Haha wow that actually is an interesting fact and worth some investigating of my own, hmm that seems pretty immoral but i guess it doesn’t really surprise me actually, i completely agree