Looking at Dell's own Battery FAQ:-

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global....c=us&l=en&cs=04

there aren't any mention of having to disconnect or FN+F2 as a measure to prolong battery life. I'd like to think that other computer manufacturing entities have at lease catch up with Apple's own battery technology that the fear of overcharging or battery performance decrease over time myth have already been dispelled. If anything, it's the OS itself reporting wrong battery information resulting in that "fear" of leaving it charged on AC = battery life decrease. This is wrong.

I've experience the wring battery life info itself when I switched to integrated graphics and run the power plan at "Battery Saver" on the M11X. The battery endurance timer slowly increases from 2hr25min to 5hr45min over time as the Speedstep feature readjusts and recalculated the real battery life.

I've an old 2007 Macbook White myself with it being plugged into the AC all time for close to a year as I was using it as iTunes server for my VOD system at home. After relieving it of that duty and running solely on battery later, it still reports decent battery life. The same case with my previous 17' Qosmio. Certainly heavy and performed as desktop replacement. Plugged all the time, no exception, to AC as it remained immobile all the time. Unplugged it and after a customary system maintainance before I sold it off to my South African buddy, it still reports comparable battery life on its own battery alone.

In short, modern batteries and its battery management mechanism is smart enough to manage itself to not stress itsef so as to the detriment of its own battery life. I have yet to see any PC manufacturer failing to use any form of smart battery management of their own. Certainly not a company as established as Dell, and most certainly not a product that is advertised as long battery endurance as the M11X.

All these "remove battery or stop battery charging when full" nonsense are just conjectures and age-old FUD spread by those who don't know how battery technology and its management has evolved to mow. You say this in year 1990-2000 I'd probably agree but we've moved on already beyond all these nitty-gritty nonsense.

Even the with the new Li-Ion, and Li-Polymer batteries these days, battery cycles are a moot point as well. All these "don't let your battery drain fully or it will never retain its full charge" nonsense doesn't apply anymore. Battery "memory" it no longer an issue unless you're buying a super old laptop.

Time to get with the times, fellas.

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Added on March 8, 2010, 1:57 pmCoreAVC. Get that.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Mar 8 2010, 01:57 PM

yeap! till your doorstep

nice one!

so.. do i need to call the no given at the website or u guys got any SA no that can giv me some discount? hehe

me..i just plug in to acc when i play games
if use intel graphic i use battery pawa..

manual also stated that
use acc pawa whenever possible..

get from me will have more discount then SA

I'd like to think that the reason the Fn+F2 doesn't work is because unless you are planning to use the M11X as a desktop, it is not even necessary. If you're planning yo run it totally on AC alone, it's a desktop already. If you run AC with battery attached, the technology is smart enough to charge the battery till full and then stop charging and run completely on AC as well. So why would you need the Fn+F2 again?

If you already want to run it solely on AC alone with the battery removed, then you'd only need to turn on that feature ONCE in the BIOS, and that's it! You wouldn't have the need to fiddle with it anymore ever, because you're already gonna run it solely on AC only wouldn't it, meaning not turning it off? If you say that you wanna occasionally run it with battery attached then guess what? You had to restart, right? That restart resets that "run on AC/Fn+F2" you just did previously and voilà! All set!

Makes sense isn't it?

Either way it is not a big deal as some makes it to be. You'd think that it's a big deal because of the FUD you're hearing about the failure to disconnect the battery when full would damage it. That FUD/myth has already busted and beaten to the ground already.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Mar 8 2010, 02:09 PM

how much a new battery will cost me ho ,i wonder ?
around rm5++..or less
better start tabung from now...

I'm sure 3 years is more than enough time to save that much money. Even more importantly, are you sure by then that your battery would still be available? Unless you get a lemon of a battery, 2-3years is a good enough estimate of how long your battery can perform before depleting.

Plus, the M11X is a gaming laptop. It will always be stressed because you're pushing it beyond the means of which a normal conventional laptops would. If that sense, you'd be using the AC more often when gaming wouldn't it? That also mean less usage of the battery and the times when you need battery/mobility, you'd be turning to integrated GFX and processor down-throttle anyway.

Again, I don't see a big deal out of this.

hihi totally agree...funding for future new m11x then
maybe we can see a new low power i7 that they fit inside m11x

downloaded and used coreavc.
i didn see or notice any difference with my previous codec that string has provided me, vlc.

coreavc and vlc both are the same, cuz both no sound when playing full hd video.

Did you set the MPC to use the CoreAVC?
And also did you ticked "Prefer CUDA acceleration" on CoreAVC?
When playing the video, right click, is there anything under Audio?

This post has been edited by lee_what2004: Mar 8 2010, 02:53 PM

yes, MPC is using coreavc. when playing hd videos, the coreavc codec appears in the icon.
yes option is prefer cuda acceleration.

and what u mean when playing video then pres right click see got any audio?

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Added on March 8, 2010, 3:40 pmthe audio option is disabled, cant click.
btw, its the haali splitter that appears. but coreavc is there also at the icon.

This post has been edited by Michaelbyz23: Mar 8 2010, 03:40 PM

If its disabled, then you don't have the codec for the audio....
which video you play?

This post has been edited by lee_what2004: Mar 8 2010, 03:53 PM

How i Met your mother season 5 episode 14 and 16 cannot play nicely smoothly and no audio.

haiz..

Play with VLC and see if the audio is still missing. If it is then that very rare, seeing that VLC will play absolutely everything thrown at it. Otherwise, it may be the fault of the encoding of the file itself, which I assume is a "torrent" or a "download". You'd have to seek out the encoder of the file to check what audio format he uses.(MP3, OGG, etc)

I really dunno anymore.
The past couple of days I tried tracking my order on the Dell website, it always said that the estimated delivery date will come in 3 days. It never did.
Then I called them up and they said they will tell me the estimated delivery date on Wednesday, which imo is a long time to wait, considering I called on Thursday.
I just checked my order status just now and it kinda just disappeared, because it says my order number and internet reference number don't exist =\

yeap string, it works and there's sound if u play on VLC. however, the video quality is lower.

comparison

yeap string, it works and there's sound if u play on VLC. however, the video quality is lower.

comparison

I know it's only been a week, but I'm starting to get frustrated.
Anyone who owns an M15x? Screemo? How long did yours take to come around?

haha, don't worry dude, mine came about 2 weeks after i placed my order, yours should arrive anytime soon!