it’s camera-shy and you’re making it panic!
Normal Windows Laptop battery.
If you want more efficiency, get a Laptop with ARM-Architecture
This would be the Windows Laptops with the Snapdragon X Elite chipset OR any MacBook with a chipset of the M-Line.
It’s called a prediction/estimation for a reason.
How long have you had this laptop?
Its because of new windows update.
Complain that to Windows feedback app
It’s like political polls, there are different algorithms used, but assumptions are made based on usage “Your Mileage May Vary” is a common disclaimer for many devices.
Wrong?
As others said, it’s an estimate.
And with the battery duration, you can go into the command line and type in “powercfg /batteryreport” to get your battery health, so you can see if it’s because of that.
And you can extend the battery duration by opening up task manager and sorting by power consumption. There may be a couple very demanding programs running
If you run for example unreal engine you might have 2 hours of battery, but if you run YouTube all day you might have up to 10 hours.
Is it dying while the battery is not low? Is the battery not lasting as long as it used to? It might be time for a new battery. On most laptops, it’s a very easy repair to do yourself and you can grab a cheap replacement from Amazon. I’ve changed the battery on a few of my computers and it fixes any battery issues.
Unless this is a gaming laptop this is not a very good battery life. I’d get 2 hours if I was lucky.
You can increase your battery life by clicking the battery bar to use a lower performance setting. Turning off BlueTooth, disabling startup apps, reducing brightness, and not running more applications at once than you need. For gaming laptops disabling the GPU and using the integrated GPU makes a big difference.
Needs calibration. Let it drain and charge it back up again.
Denali said:
Needs calibration. Let it drain and charge it back up again.
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted for this. Occasionally it is a good thing to charge to 100%, drain to zero, and then charge to 100% without interruption or use.
When your devices are draining fast from 20%-5%, and then sitting at 2% for half an hour it is a sure sign the battery is not calibrated. Same goes for 100%-90%
You should never let your devices die unless you’re calibrating because it’s not good for the battery. With many things maintenance requires wear. What I described is more of a once-per-month gig. For the record, maintaining a cell phone within 20-85% or even 90% makes a huge difference in battery health longevity.
@Briar
It’s because I know what I’m talking about. Reddit doesn’t like that.
If people actually read the manuals for their stuff, they’d see the manufacturers recommend this every 6 months to a year.
You’re on a PC and they’re shit at accurately measuring battery life. You’d have to lower the brightness and enable eco mode to likely get 5h of battery life.
Blame Apple for making efficient computers. This is just Windows trying to trick you into believing they offer the same.
@Ash
I don’t think Apple are too good at estimating time remaining, they removed the estimates from the menu bar icon a while ago for this reason!
Firth said:
@Ash
I don’t think Apple are too good at estimating time remaining, they removed the estimates from the menu bar icon a while ago for this reason!
So they have! Still, you know it’s true. Battery last 4h easy doing regular tasks.
Maybe the embedded balancer/controller is broken
Blue said:
Maybe the embedded balancer/controller is broken
Most of you that down voted are retarded. Look at the evidences he posted. The variance is too big between pictures with no time skip. This could mean a defective battery.