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Inspiron 16 Plus 7630, 3.5 hours of battery life?
Inspiron 16 Plus 7630
I just got this for university and my laptop only gets 3.5 hours of battery life. Is this normal? It doesn't seem acceptable for a 2023 laptop to run for only an eighth of a day.
ejn63
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July 14th, 2023 17:00
That's very low if it's the model with the integrated Intel GPU, but entirely reasonable if it's the one with the RTX 4060 GPU.
Just as you can buy a Ford Mustang with a 4 cylinder Ecoboost (20-30 mpg), you can also buy it as the V8 GT500, which gets about 12-15 mpg. Same car, different engine.
You're not going to get good battery runs out of any system designed for high performance video any more than you get good fuel economy from a sports car with a big twin-turbo V8.
DELL-Chris M
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July 23rd, 2023 04:00
KM88,
ejn63 is correct as usual! You bought the Inspiron 16 Plus 7630 with i7-13700H CPU and GeForce RTX 4060 GPU.
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September 3rd, 2023 10:57
@DELL-Chris M Thanks for confirmation as It saved me from spending 2500 aud, on same model as I was a click away . and it is dell problem as the GPU can not be on/off manually, when not needed which that could save heaps of battery life...