In our worst-case-scenario battery testing
Posted 01-07-2011 at 06:29 AM by yuanshunzhen
Apple’s own internal battery testing indicates that the MacBook Air’s battery doesn’t have as long a life as those on the
MacBook and MacBook Pro, and our tests bear that out. In our worst-case-scenario
HP Pavilion dv6500 Battery testing, we
looped a QuickTime movie at full display brightness and with all energy-saving settings turned off. In those tests, the
MacBook Air tended to run out of juice about 30 to 45 minutes sooner than either the MacBook Pro or the MacBook.
In our internal temperature testing, the free Temperature Monitor Widget reported that heat-sink temperature topped out at
132.8 degrees for the Air. That’s the same as the 17-inch 2.4GHz MacBook Pro, but a few tenths of a degree higher than the
132.2 degree temperature turned in for
Compaq presario c700 battery . The temperatures are so close, however, that category
is essentially a push.
Surprisingly, the new 1.6GHz MacBook Air even bested a first generation configure-to-order with a 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo
processor and a 120GB Parallel ATA hard drive by 22 percent in Speedmark 5. Again, the new Nvidia graphic helped out
immensely, with big gains in many tests, including Photoshop, Cinema 4D, and Compressor.
Other minor drawbacks remain from the original SeeThru: It makes your laptop slightly thicker, and to remove your laptop’s
battery, you need to remove the bottom
HP Pavilion dv6700 Battery piece of the SeeThru. You’ll also want to make sure your
MacBook’s exterior, as well as the interior of the SeeThru, are free of dust and dirt before installation; because the case
fits flush against your laptop’s surfaces, you don’t want specks of dirt grinding against the aluminum. Finally, while the
SeeThru does provide ventilation openings, my MacBook did get slightly warmer during use—not enough to cause concern, but
it’s a consequence worth noting.
Third, I find it hard to believe that it’s so inconvenient to replace the RAM, but so convenient to replace the hard drive.
Yes, I will only max out my RAM once, but undoing all those Compaq Presario B1900 Battery screws was a practice in delayed
gratification when compared to both my Pismo PowerBook G3 and my 12-inch PowerBook.
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MacBook and MacBook Pro, and our tests bear that out. In our worst-case-scenario
HP Pavilion dv6500 Battery testing, we
looped a QuickTime movie at full display brightness and with all energy-saving settings turned off. In those tests, the
MacBook Air tended to run out of juice about 30 to 45 minutes sooner than either the MacBook Pro or the MacBook.
In our internal temperature testing, the free Temperature Monitor Widget reported that heat-sink temperature topped out at
132.8 degrees for the Air. That’s the same as the 17-inch 2.4GHz MacBook Pro, but a few tenths of a degree higher than the
132.2 degree temperature turned in for
Compaq presario c700 battery . The temperatures are so close, however, that category
is essentially a push.
Surprisingly, the new 1.6GHz MacBook Air even bested a first generation configure-to-order with a 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo
processor and a 120GB Parallel ATA hard drive by 22 percent in Speedmark 5. Again, the new Nvidia graphic helped out
immensely, with big gains in many tests, including Photoshop, Cinema 4D, and Compressor.
Other minor drawbacks remain from the original SeeThru: It makes your laptop slightly thicker, and to remove your laptop’s
battery, you need to remove the bottom
HP Pavilion dv6700 Battery piece of the SeeThru. You’ll also want to make sure your
MacBook’s exterior, as well as the interior of the SeeThru, are free of dust and dirt before installation; because the case
fits flush against your laptop’s surfaces, you don’t want specks of dirt grinding against the aluminum. Finally, while the
SeeThru does provide ventilation openings, my MacBook did get slightly warmer during use—not enough to cause concern, but
it’s a consequence worth noting.
Third, I find it hard to believe that it’s so inconvenient to replace the RAM, but so convenient to replace the hard drive.
Yes, I will only max out my RAM once, but undoing all those Compaq Presario B1900 Battery screws was a practice in delayed
gratification when compared to both my Pismo PowerBook G3 and my 12-inch PowerBook.
http://www.fiql.com/blogs/battery
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