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Inspiron 7610 Battery Life - Is it Any Good
I'm currently working on a 7510 Plus (Manufactured 2022) and it has the 56Wh battery. Moving the bightness to 50% means I can get about 3 to 4 hours ish battery. Considering I would need to put more RAM in it to make it useable, an option is to return it to Dell and get the Insprion 7610 Plus as it has a 86Wh battery. However, I spotted it comes with a 3K screen which could hoover up any extra capacity.
Is this the case or do users find it lasts say 5 hours plus when used for word processing, web browsing and so on. I get this is a "piece of string" type question but it will help whether I bite the bullet and upgrade my new Inspiron (which does have some benefits) or return it.
Edit: Specs Inspiron 15 Plus 7510, 56Wh Battery, Intel I7 11800H, NVIDIA 3050 Ti, 8GB RAM. Usage: general office/productivity.
ejn63
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June 15th, 2022 11:00
The two biggest power consumers in that system will be the GPU and the screen -- and neither of those is required for general office productivity or web browsing. Unless you are also going to be using this as a multimedia workstation, order a system with Intel integrated graphics and an FHD screen and you will see good to better than good battery runtimes.
Ordering a system with the 3K screen and a discrete GPU is pushing toward high performance -- and that's at odds with battery runtimes. You can't buy a car with a high performance, turbocharged V8 engine and expect good fuel economy -- same here.
Unless you're looking for some other application, you'll do better with a mainstream system, integrated GPU and FHD screen if you're looking for battery runtime.
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June 15th, 2022 09:00
Correction on battery life: 2.5 to 3 hours approx when web browsing and on 50% brightness.
Edit: spelling error
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June 15th, 2022 12:00
ejn63, Thanks so much and I like the anology to a V8. For readers benefits, my logic on a discreet GPU was to have some longevity in the system and power multiple displays - having used twin screens, they are far, far better and I have been bitten by poor system specs before (thus dont mind going for something more powerful). From what it sounds like, any benefits of the >50% increase in battery is likely to be gobbled up by the display. While there may be a small net increase, it sounds like it isnt worth the messing around of wiping an old system (and SSDs are more difficult to do securely anyway), returning it and establishing a new one. Plus, the 7510 I have is 20mm shallower than the 7610 (228mm vs 247mm) making it more portable.