Battery Life

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I want to know that whats the normal battery time of  HP ENVY x360 - m6-w103dx (ENERGY STAR) at full performance.

=Audio running in background 

=Buffering a video on internet

=Downloading data on IDM,Steam,Origin at the same time

=Playing a game on medium result

My notebook only survive 2 hours,when above items are opened.I just want to know that is my notebook giving me right battery time?I think my battery is little damaged because when i bought it,i didn't wait for it to be fully charged.I unplugged the Power cable and started using it.

Can i do battery test or something like this to ensure my battery's health!

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

With all that happening 2 hours is probably not too bad. You did not damage the battery by the way you used it. Lithium ion batteries do not require the kind of special handling that a lot of people still think laptop batteries require, based on earlier kinds of batteries not sold in the last 20 years. The x360 has generated a lot of criticism as to its actual battery life, given that HP has advertised very long life, up to 12 hours. People are getting somewhere between 2 and 5 hours based on just a sample of people who are unhappy enough to post here. You have a battery test utility built into the laptop if you tap F2 as you power up to get into the diagnostic screen. Run the diagnostic and post back the results.

If you want to get optimum battery life you have to mainly turn down screen brightness but also avoid opening multiple windows and anything graphics intensive. You are doing everything possible to shorten the battery runtime.