Hi All,
I wanted the forums thoughts on the X1 Extreme Gen 2 battery life issue that seems to be a never ending battle with this laptop. I sought out the X1EG2 laptop due to its claimed 11+ hour battery life as reported on the Lenovo website thinking it'd be an absolute brilliant machine for portability and have a dedicated graphics card for when i need to perform graphics intensive work.
I do a lot of photography work so decided to upgrade the display to the 4k option for the better calibration and colour reproduction but what i didnt factor in or get notifeid in any of Lenovo's documentation in doing this will reduce the screen-on time to 2 1/2 hours at best running light web browsing tasks.
I have performed the following steps to increase my battery life, but still only see a maximum of 2 1/2, maybe 3 if im running extremely low screen brightness and not multi tasking --
- Turn off all apps ability to run in the background
- Clean install of Win10
- Installed the latest drivers / BIOS settings (currently running v1.30 bios and the latest nvidia / intel drivers)
- Deleted all un-necessary apps from the laptop
- Disabled all startup items
- Disabled all Windows pretty settings and set everything to basics
- Switching to Edge just for web browsing for a mobile use session to see if any significant
But, as mentioned above im only getting 2 - 3 hours of battery life if im careful.
Can anyone provide some constructive assistance with this issue as im at witts end if this is resolvable to get the 4+ hours i was reading others get, but still a far cry from the advertised amount. Is this something Lenovo will accept a return on? Is it something that can be improved?
I don't want to go down the route of under-volting the CPU and that's the last step i've been able to research is available to try to eek out a bit more on-battery time.
The compairson I keep looking at is the Dell XPS 15" is able to get 8+ hours on cord free use with a 4k panel and all the performance specs of the Lenovo X1 -- so is this just another case of lenovo software / firmware strikes again to explain the huge difference in battery life -- or is there something else to it?
Any assistance would be appreciated on others persona experiences, what theyve done, anything -- to try to resolve this issue.
Cheerssssss