I'm looking for a mobile battery benchmark that will run while I'm away from the laptop (read: asleep) and retain logs that I can get in the morning to see how it went. Does anyone have a recommendation?
I'm basically looking for something that I can set, go to bed, and then plug the laptop in and get the results from logs, etc.
A plus would be one that also runs under Linux. Not a necessity, but a nice-to-have.
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Prime95, which loads the CPU and runs the battery down. Ghetto I know.
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I'm not looking to kill it, otherwise I'd have straight used Orthos
I'm looking for something to utilize wifi (refresh pages, etc.) and stress it like a normal person. I know how to stress it like I do - I watch a movie and install a bunch of things simultaneously, and then play a U3E game
. I did that part already.
I need a "normal surfing the web" type bench. I'm trying to give a realistic expectation of battery life out of my new ultra-portable. -
ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon
Then get BatteryBar, install it and then use your machine as you normally would for a few days. It will track your daily use and give you realtime estimates of the amount of battery time left.
Nice little app.
Gary
Battery Bench that runs without intervention
Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Aerows, Jan 14, 2010.