Laptop battery Drain... Please post your discharging rate!

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Hi all

As most of us laptop users try and get the best possable life time out of one charge im intrested in seeing others discharging rates under certain conditions.
Please if you have the time, post your battery state (after a full charge), Im currently testing with the lowest amount of backlight, governer on ondemand and using wifi (strong local AP signal).

After a full charge I have an optimum capacity of 4010mAh and a discharge rate of around 969mAh. One can check this with:

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cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state

Here is my output:

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doh james # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state
present:                yes
capacity state:         ok
charging state:         discharging
present rate:           969 mA
remaining capacity:     4010 mAh
present voltage:        12324 mV

My system :
Acer Aspire 5633
Core 2 duo (1.66ghz)
Nvidia Geforce Go 7300
Acer standard 6 cell battery

With the wifi on i get about 4 hours of use, mainly surfing the web before the battery is dissipated completely. Present rate value fluctuates between 960- 1200 mA


Thanks

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[welp]

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welp@Aristotle ~ % cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          discharging
present rate:            30345 mW
remaining capacity:      65460 mWh
present voltage:         16350 mV

My system:

• Dell Latitude C600
  850MHz P3
  384MB RAM
  Brand new battery

I got around 3 hours 30 mins the other night, using the laptop for web browsing, IRCing, MSN, Jabber, an emerge or two, etc. Display dimmed as much as possible but still running at 850MHz.