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Battery life with i3 vs. i5 vs. i7

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Mar 15, 20267593 views
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I recently purchased a laptop with an i7-640m processor (blinded by a discount), and my battery life is fairly horrendous: the manufacturer given battery life is 6 hours (I know, it's an upper bound), and I barely squeeze out 3 hours with light usage+wifi. I can't seem to find any information on wh…

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can't seem to find any information on whether swapping out the processor for a i5 or even an i3 would significantly extend the battery life, It doubt it would. 3hrs is about average. . I should also note that Engadget gets around 5.5 hours with a si…

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