This tablet has prodigious power and if you are looking for something that can take over
from average laptop usage (such as writing, surfing, media playing, art...
Not exact matches
On the
Laptop Mag Audio Test (measuring a tone
from 13 inches away at maximum volume), the Fire HD 6 registered 79 decibels, exactly matching the tablet
average.
Notching 70 dB on
Laptop Mag's audio test (playing a tone and measuring it
from 13 inches), the Iconia was softer than the
average tablet (79 dB), the Kindle Fire HDX 7 (77 dB) and the Venue 8 (81 dB).
Granted, tablets are designed to resume
from sleep, but the
average Windows
laptop takes less time to boot than the TouchPad.
Notching 74 dB on
Laptop Mag's audio test, which involves playing a tone on max and measuring it
from 13 inches, the VivoTab Note 8 beat the 72 - dB Miix 2 but was softer than the
average tablet (79 dB), the Iconia W4 (78 dB) and the Venue 8 Pro (88 dB).
On
Laptop's audio test, which involves playing a tone on the device on max volume and measuring it
from 13 inches, the tablet registered 81 decibels, just shy of the 83 dB tablet category
average.
On the
Laptop Audio Test (measuring a tone
from 13 inches away at maximum volume), the G Pad 7.0 registered 76 decibels, below the tablet
average of 79 dB, the ASUS MeMO Pad 7 (78 dB), the Dell Venue 7 (81 dB) and the Acer Iconia One 7 (82 dB).
On
LAPTOP's audio test, which involves playing a tone on the device on max volume and measuring it
from 13 inches, the tablet registered 74 decibels, below the tablet category
average (83 dB) and the Kurio 7s» 81 dB.
The Nextbook managed just 64 decibels
from 23 inches away, compared with the
laptop average of 84 dB, the Toshiba Radius 11's 82 dB and the HP Stream 11's impressive 90 dB.
On the
Laptop Mag Audio Test, the Lenovo produced 90 decibels of sound
from 13 inches away, louder than the Nextbook 10.1 (77 dB) and the tablet
average of 87 dB.
The
average laptop price stayed basically the same as last year at $ 1,186, which is down
from $ 1400 in 2007, and
from $ 2,100 in 2004.
It falls only a bit behind the
average for the thin - and - light
laptop category (8:21), but it's hours shorter than times
from outliers like the Dell Precision 5520 (11:57).
The speedy CPU enabled Dell's
laptop to earn a fantastic score of 15,437 on the Geekbench 3, which eclipses the scores
from the v5 Xeon E3 - 1505M - powered ZBook Studio G3 (14,276), the ThinkPad P50 (13,378) and the
average for mainstream notebooks (8,351).
However, in order to do this, the company ditched the hot - swappable batteries
from prior models, leaving the
laptop with endurance that's slightly below
average.
However, the
laptop also suffers
from a few drawbacks, including below -
average battery life and a slow solid - state drive.
It took 9 hours and 34 minutes for the
Laptop Mag Battery Test to drain the workstation of its juice, which is longer than the 4:29 category
average and the times
from the ZBook Studio (5:08), the ThinkPad P70 (5:53) and the MSI WE72 (2:57).
This award winning
laptop (it won best
laptop of the year
from us and many others) manages to pack a 13.3 - inch display into the chassis of an
average 11.6 - inch model.