Gigabyte GA-T1005M: Multi Touch Tablet PC, Battery Life.

[Lyta Allexander]

I have not been able to find anything about battery life with the T1005M, I was wondering if anyone and or the admins could find out, I have heard is is a friend on another forum that it is a woefull 4 hours, even with the high capacity 6 cell battery.


I don't see anything about the battery life in the advertising and that makes me very very very scared, if I confirm it's only 4 hours I will have to cancel my order, because 4 hours is no where near enough and for 800 aussie dollars it's  not worth the price.

Anyone have any idea on the battery life, an Admin should be able to find out.

Thanks.

[Dark Mantis]

I would say your best course of action would be to PM runn3R the gigabyte Admin of the forum and see if he can find out for you.

[absic]

Actually you'd be better off sending a PM to RuiPereira. He also works for Gigabyte and is the notebook guy. You can PM him here: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=2

[Lyta Allexander]

Thanks will message him, hows he at answering ?

Thanks.

Just sent how the question about the battery life, also sent message to my friend about where he saw this 4 hour rumour and or truth from.

Thanks.

[absic]

runn3R is pretty good.
Rui might take a couple of days as he doesn't log on every day here.

[Dark Mantis]

Normally he will answer in the same way you contacted him but if he thinks it's a matter for general interest then he may post it too.

[Lyta Allexander]

Sent to bot I await the answer :/

Thanks.

[Lyta Allexander]

http://www.daffodilistic.com/2010/10/02/gigabyte-t1005m-review/

Heres a review.

Barely 4 hours, thats a FAIL, just cancelled my order.

Oh well I keep looking or a good 10.1 dualcore netbook.

Out.

[Lyta Allexander]

Still would like to buy one, if the review is wong and it does get 8 hours, maybe they left blutooth on, ect

Would be nice if they had a 8 or 12 cell battery as an option, I thin the Atom dual core needs it, the 6 cell seems not to cut it.

I am still one of you, I have a Gigabyte 8800 GTS video card

Thanks.

/PS and a Gigabyte Mobo.

[Dark Mantis]

Hey you are always welcome anyway. Hopefully one of the Gigabyte people will get back to you with good news.

[Lyta Allexander]

No one has answerd yet, two days and counting.

Maybe the gigabyte guy is ashamed about the crap batter life, I mean they say nothing about the battery life in the adverts at all, everything else but NOTHING At all ABOUT THE BATTERY LIFE.

Oh well will have to wait till some people start doing some reviews to know for sure I guess.

Outs.

[Dark Mantis]

There is no point reading more into the situation then is necessary. To be fair they are busy people with other responsibilities apart from looking after the forum. They will answer your question as soon as they can I am sure.

[RuiPereira]

No one has answerd yet, two days and counting.

Maybe the gigabyte guy is ashamed about the crap batter life, I mean they say nothing about the battery life in the adverts at all, everything else but NOTHING At all ABOUT THE BATTERY LIFE.

Oh well will have to wait till some people start doing some reviews to know for sure I guess.

Outs.

Hello Lyta,
Please check your inbox, I have replied via PM, the reason for the two day delay was becuase I had to check/confirm with HQ in Taiwan. I only received your message on 05 October 2010 @ 16:06, so I don't think its that bad 

Like I said, battery life is really dificult to say, although others do meantion battery life, you will find that you never really get what is advertised.
The T1005 supports USB3.0, which means even more power is needed, but switching off USB3.0 function can add aobut 70min extra.

If USB 3.0 is on----> battery life 402mins If USB 3.0 is off----> battery life 472mins.
But this also depends on what you using, such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, LCD Brightness, HDD activity, graphics, etc…

This model is also availabe with a 4-Cell battery, but currently 6-cell is the biggest.

Thanks

[Dark Mantis]

Presumably you could even make it a bit more by installing a SSD instead of the HDD.

[Lyta Allexander]

Check my mail and I shot off some questions to RuiPereira, will hopefully have some more answers soon and maybe I will un cancel my Purchase.

Looking promising.

Depends on the battery life and sound at the moment.

Outs.

I don't think SSD's  use that less power to make any difference myby 30 minutes if your luck, probably much less. 2.5 scorpio blue drives are very power iffecent.

Though I am sure the system will be MUCH MUCH more respnsive and boot up the OS in about 15 seconds, so not a total loss

Byes.