Laptop testing tools

Hello,

I'm looking at buying a refurbished notebook to play around with linux distros but am concerned about the quality of what I'll get in terms of battery life, hard drive, RAM, etc..

I'm just wondering if there's any freeware tools that would give me a report of the notebook I'd want to buy - something that could give me a report on battery life, RAM, hard drive,,,,,

 

For battery life you just have to check the real battery life, or check the wear level with software like battery care or batterybar.

The manufacturer of the hardrive usually has an harddisk test tool. And for RAM you can use memtest. Other than that check for things like keyboard failures or touchpad. Also check if all the ports (if possible) work (aka take a usb harddrive, a dvd and headphones with you).

Other than that not really much you can do.

 

take a look > http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...d-monitoring-your-temps-more.html#post4772062

ill update it soon with battery software from other forum.

edit. threads been closed so i cant add or update it but take a look at Gophn's thread http://forum.notebookreview.com/not...idia-ati-cpu-hdd-do-your-temps-worry-you.html

 

The Ultimate Boot CD contains several burn-in type programs.

 

Has anyone tried Laplink DiskImage Software ? There is a rebate for it, though many times it is the crap products that offer rebates like CA antivirus for one.