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It's simply not an appropriate test. You don't use high performance mode when you care about battery life.
by hendersoon 10y ago
It's simply not an appropriate test. You don't use high performance mode when you care about battery life.
- throwanem 10y agoI don't get your objection here. Not only does high-performance mode eliminate OS-level confounders that would otherwise render consumption deltas highly questionable, it does so in a way that produces worst-case results. What exactly are you complaining about?
- hendersoon 10y agoAll that other stuff impacts battery life in a huge way. Those variables matter. You can't just remove them, call it a "worst case scenario", and walk away. That is not valid. When a reputable site like Anandtech reviews a laptop, they don't force it to maximum performance mode, because nobody that cares about battery life would ever do that. It's testing a scenario that _doesn't matter_. In fact, not only is it not the default, but maximum performance mode doesn't even _show_ by default-- you need to expand a "show additional plans" dropdown in the power control panel to see it. Opera went to the trouble to do that, and it was not by accident.
- SapphireSun 10y agoI think you're looking for a followup study that complements these results, but that study would be not as valuable as with these to inform their interpretation.