If you have recently bought a laptop or intend to buy one in the near future, it is important that you know how your laptop functions and what are the basic differences between the laptop models available. Most laptop manufacturers refer to laptops as ‘mainframe computers’ or ‘thin client computers’ which implies that they use the main computer (processor) for processing multiple tasks. A laptop has many components besides the CPU including graphics cards, hard drives, RAM and batteries. A laptop gets all its power from the battery and only the CPU can give it its performance capabilities.
You can enable the power limit throttle in the laptop battery to test its performance under different operating conditions and determine the laptop’s maximum performance based on the workload that it can bear. It also enables the user to save battery power by enabling the processor to run at a lower temperature so that performance can be tested under stressful conditions. In this article we will see how we can test the endurance of a laptop CPU, compare a laptop’s memory capacity and test its temperature and fan speed.
This article is all about testing the battery life of a laptop i7 and how we can determine whether it has enough power to handle our daily activities without the risk of over overheating. Our test subject is a laptop with an Intel Core Duo processor running at speeds of about 2.4 GHz. The laptop is set to perform a number of tasks including a spreadsheet application, a word processor and a gaming test all at the same time. To measure the laptop’s performance and its power consumption, we use a Realbenchmark Real-Time Performance Test. This benchmark records the maximum load that the processor can sustain for a given time and the time it takes for it to come back to an idle status.
To obtain accurate results, we use a Realbenchmark Application which is installed on the laptop and performs real-world usage measurements. The laptop is then placed in a load test program which displays the elapsed time required to complete a task with all the fans and active components enabled. The laptop is then evaluated against the Realbenchmark results and a score is calculated to represent the laptop’s real world battery life.
As we can see from the result the laptop gets very hot and consumes a lot of power when under load. A good thing to note is that even with all the heavy use the laptop got still to remain very efficient when it came to its real world usage. During the evaluation the laptop was still able to maintain a battery life which is pretty amazing considering the high temperatures it operates at. The laptop performed extremely well in the real world test, which shows just how good the laptop gets when under real-world usage.
In the real-world test the laptop did not perform too badly when it came to battery life, but it does suffer quite badly when it comes to its CPU usage. This is probably caused by the large amount of video card fans, which are also used in the device. You might think that this can affect the performance of the CPU, but it doesn’t. Even though the laptop got a lot of battery life during the testing, it still managed to remain very efficient when it comes to using the CPU.