6. MobileMark 2005 Battery Benchmarks

The MobileMark 2005 benchmarks test how a mobile computer does when running on battery. There are four battery life tests: office productivity, research and reading, DVD playback and wireless Web browsing. Each test uses real world applications and runs from the time the computer's battery reaches full charge and the power plug is pulled, until the battery is totally discharged; test results are reported in minutes. In addition, MobileMark 2005 calculates two performance values while doing the office productivity test: an overall performance score, and the average response time for completion of all the tasks in the office productivity test. The overall performance score is based on average response time and is scaled against the performance of a fairly low powered reference system which received a score of 100.

The following graphs present the MobileMark 2005 tests for the Acer 2304LCi notebook computer. Our conclusions follow the graphs.