Kaisq
Hiya,



I've been trying to use my blade to watch lectures or netflix etc. on battery and I've noticed atrocious battery life on near idle performance, even with battery saver, 60hz, low brightness, etc I can only squeeze about an hour 40 minutes out of the battery. Marketing/reviews led me to believe I should be getting 4-6hours on battery?



According to hwinfo, I'm drawing around 35-45w on battery saver + idle, with only 5-11w going to the cpu and an overall average of 14w going to the (apparently inactive) gpu, which draws bursts of 27w+ then stops?



I feel awful that I've spent £2200 on a laptop that can barely survive an hour away from a charger. The performance is great using the (frankly outdated and oversized) 220w charger but I hate having to use a usb-c charger just for word processing/low performance tasks



Win11, but had the same issue before upgrading

Nvidia & synapse latest drivers

Bios v1.06 (latest I can find for the blade 14)

That's a bummer. Sorry to hear about your laptop's battery-related concern. Please send me the following:



a. Screenshot of System Information (Hit Windows+R to open the Run box. Type “msinfo32” into the “Open” field, and then hit Enter.)

b. Screenshot of Nvidia/Intel Driver Version: (Press Windows+R on your keyboard. Type in DXDIAG into the run command text box and hit OK. Then click on YES. Click on the Display 2 tab and look for the Nvidia version on the right side.)

c. A photo of the BIOS main tab.

d. Windows Battery Report



• Hit Windows Button + X and select Command Prompt (Admin). This is the quickest way to open the Command Prompt as an administrator.

• Type in and enter: powercfg /batteryreport



Note: This command will create a battery report under C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\battery-report.html or, in Windows versions older than Windows 10, under C:\\Users\\rUsername]



e. Windows Energy Report



• type "powercfg/energy" in command prompt, (It’ll take 60 seconds to generate an energy report of your battery then produce an HTML report in the root path of C: drive.)



Save the files via Google Drive or any online drive account, then paste the link in your PM. I’ll be locking this thread now to divert our conversation privately.

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