Hey everyone. I just got my alienware laptop last night. Its brand new. I installed...

[Joshua Hernadez]

Hey everyone. I just got my alienware laptop last night. Its brand new. I installed HWMonitor last night to check my temps n stuff and i noticed my battery wear level was already at 10%. I thought, well thats fine, maybe the laptop was made a while back. Fast forward today i check and the wear level is at 14%!! Am afraid this is going up too fast! Anyways to prevent or prolong the batteries life? Google isnt helping. Thanks in advance.

 

[Blake Dalenko]

I may be wrong but I believe the battery go up to like 20% wear quickly and than after that it takes longer

 

[Ammar Din]

i dont think thats a brand new one (at least it was released a few years ago)

 

[Akex Benjamin]

is that an old model? why does it have a windows 7 sticker?

 

[Calvin Verheijen]

Idk about your battery, but that's a nice laptop. I had one myself that's had a lot of use and it's battery was fine.No idea what the wear level would have been but it lasted for several hours no problem.

 

[Chris Metcalfe]

loved my AW laptop when i had one that was back in the 8800 GT days alienware gets alot of hate as for the 10%wear its fine it will not go up unless u abuse the batt enjoy sir and game on

 

[Joshua Hernadez]

Just a bit paranoid here, i had one before this guy and the battery flopped in a month

 

[Dennis Eriksson]

I have mine plugged to the wall, so that I don't cause any wear on the battery, and only plug the battery in if I'm traveling.

 

[Matt Ullrich]

I used to have a 17 r3. In the settings under battery it has a battery setting (can’t remember the name) it is supposed to protect the battery of over charging or draining too much to help prolong the battery life

 

[Daniel Goldy]

It sounds like a bad battery. I would open a warranty claim and have the battery replaced.

 

[Jackson Gosnell]

When you put a battery up to a GPU it’s going to take some ware.. but that sounds like a dud.

 

[Deepak Dua]

I hav. 17 R4

 

[Henry Komelski]

I don't endorse them since they sold out to Dell.

 

[Jeremy Peters]

I have an Alienware m17x. The battery life when i first purchased it was maybe 45 minutes. It’s a laptop yes but it pretty much must be plugged in no matter what. I still love the laptop though!

 

[Aaron Tyler Matthews]

The fix is to buy a laptop from literally any company other than Dell.

 

[Sean Rillorta]

awww its been 3 years since ive had this and its not getting better

 

[Allen S Morris]

Well your first mistake was buying an Alienware ... Out of all the gaming laptops you pick the one that is the slowest and you thought you were buying a good PC but you bought the name sorry

 

[Vaibhav Gaur]

Specs please

 

[Hamdi Ceylan]

That's not a brand new model, by the way, which could be the reason why the battery wear level is appearing high to you. That looks like a 2013 model, depending on the specs.

 

[Nathan Johnston]

Take it back, I bought alienware two years back never regretted it more. Nothing but problems. Take it back and get Asus or MSI or anything else that doesn't have Dell parts in it