Battery Tests
Contents
- 1. Introduction: Notebooks With DirectX 9-Capable GPUs Really Do Exist
- 2. Fat Sound, Very Good Display, Eminently Connectible: The S5205-S705 At A Glance
- 3. Fat Sound, Very Good Display, Eminently Connectible: The S5205-S705 At A Glance, Continued
- 4. Fat Sound, Very Good Display, Eminently Connectible: The S5205-S705 At A Glance, Continued
- 5. Fat Sound, Very Good Display, Eminently Connectible: The S5205-S705 At A Glance, Continued
- 6. Simple But Expensive Memory Upgrade
- 7. The Test Setup, Continued
- 8. The Features Of The GeForce FX Go 5600
- 9. The Peculiarities Of The Geforce FX Go 5600 In The Satellite 5200
- 10. PowerMizer 3.0 Enables 3D Performance And Battery Life As Needed
17. Battery Tests
THG calculates the operating life of the battery using three typical, everyday applications:
DVD playback: a DVD video (Apollo 13) is played and replayed until the battery is empty; Presentation: a presentation runs in a continuous loop until all of the juice is gone; Game: in this case the four game demos from 3D Mark 2001 SE served as the basis for the test.Because notebooks from Toshiba have their own very sophisticated power management tool ("Toshiba PowerSaver"), we used it instead of the standard power scheme of Windows XP. For the power saving technology of the processor (SpeedStep), we chose "Automatic" mode.
With a maximum battery operating life of three hours when running typical office applications, the Satellite is not one of the distance runners. Within the Pentium4-M camp, however, it still numbers among the good machines.
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