Just got this notebook. Like everyone said, its a great machine, video is really good. Even 1080p HD is very watchable. Streaming videos also no prob.

Except one strange thing, when I'm charging the battery, and watching video, cpu usage immediately shoots up. Hits 100% most of the time, and the video becomes really jerky and unwatchable. When unplug the charger, cpu usage goes to about 50% to 60%, and everything's great again. When I stop the video, cpu usage immediately drops to below 10%, even when charging. When battery is fully charged, charging auto cuts off, and no problem to watch. This is something to do with the AMD chip, I have another notebook i5 machine, when watching videos cpu never goes beyond 15%.

Of course I can just live with it, just that sometimes after work, battery is low and I want to watch something, but not enough juice to complete a movie. Can be annoying, have to charge first before can watch a movie.

Anyone else who bought this experienced it? Any way of getting around it?

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Added on November 18, 2012, 12:18 amJust found out that when battery is charged to 86%, the problem disappears, ie, cpu usage becomes normal again...

Any guru out there can explain and provide a solution?

This post has been edited by thongbl: Nov 18 2012, 12:18 AM

When I played a video, i think its vlc that brings it up to 100% - in windows task manager I can see it is the number under "CPU" that goes up when i plug the power cord in. When streaming, it is the chrome processes that suddenly spike up when power cord plugged in.