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    From Lucifer@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 29 22:12:09 2022
    How do people test the battery run time for their laptop or tablet?
    I have the device streaming youtube.
    I recently bought a used Surface Pro 2. The battery is good for
    five hours streaming youtube!

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 29 21:18:47 2022
    Am Freitag, 29. Juli 2022, um 22:12:09 Uhr schrieb Lucifer:

    How do people test the battery run time for their laptop or tablet?
    I have the device streaming youtube.
    I recently bought a used Surface Pro 2. The battery is good for
    five hours streaming youtube!

    Charge it and then create 100% load on CPU, HDD, GPU. The check after
    what time it reached a critical level.

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  • From Lucifer@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 30 14:58:12 2022
    On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 21:18:47 +0200, Marco Moock <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Am Freitag, 29. Juli 2022, um 22:12:09 Uhr schrieb Lucifer:

    How do people test the battery run time for their laptop or tablet?
    I have the device streaming youtube.
    I recently bought a used Surface Pro 2. The battery is good for
    five hours streaming youtube!

    Charge it and then create 100% load on CPU, HDD, GPU. The check after
    what time it reached a critical level.

    Is that a realistic test? I see the youtube streaming as a good test
    of how long the battery can operate under normal conditions.
    It used to be that people would test the battery by playing a
    DVD movie.

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 30 08:02:32 2022
    Am Samstag, 30. Juli 2022, um 14:58:12 Uhr schrieb Lucifer:

    Is that a realistic test?
    If you want to know how long it operates when the system is being on
    full load, then yes.

    I see the youtube streaming as a good test
    of how long the battery can operate under normal conditions.
    It used to be that people would test the battery by playing a
    DVD movie.

    It depends on what you like to know. If you like to know how long it
    lasts of you only run a text editor, low screen brightness and no
    GPU/CPU activity, then you need to test with these circumstances.

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