Our web browsing loop, which loads new websites automatically until the battery dies, squeezed six hours and 49 minutes from the Swift 7.
Huawei's MateBook Pro X did best in
our web browsing loop, where it lasted about nine and a half hours.
Our web browsing loop gave us three hours and 12 minutes, which is in line with the first result.
Our web browsing loop, which is less demanding and includes some idle time, extended life to seven hours and two minutes.
A less demanding
web browsing loop ate through the battery in two hours and 30 minutes.
Not exact matches
I averaged around 8.5 to 9 hours on a video
loop test, and more while just using it to poke around on Twitter and Facebook and
browse the
web.
However, the XPS 13 didn't take the lead in our
web browsing and video
loop tests.
Our
web browsing test
loops through a handful of moderately taxing
web pages, and gives a good idea of how long a machine's battery hold out in typical casual use.
That test, when set to accelerated, uses the CPU and GPU to continuously run
looping tasks like photo editing, video chat,
web browsing, and more, until the battery hits 20 percent.
Our Peacekeeper
web browsing benchmark
loop sucked the battery dry in about five and a half hours, while the the UX305CA lasted almost six hours.
In our video
loop test we saw around 14 hours and 40 minutes of life, while it ran for 4 hours in our intensive Basemark
web browsing test.
The Peacekeeper
web browsing benchmark, a
loop that runs until the battery dies, ate through a full charge in five hours and 25 minutes.
In our
web browsing battery test (which
loops a
web page once a minute), the Galaxy S6 held up well, achieving over nine hours of uptime.
Our
web browser
loop, where a collection of popular websites are loaded continuously, gave us five hours and fifty minutes of battery life, which suggests you can
browse the
web for quite a while on one charge.
However, on other occasions we drained the battery in three and a half hours using a simple
web browsing and YouTube viewing
loop.
The Peacekeeper browser test drained the battery in a little under four hours, but our video
loop and
web browsing macro tests remained between four and five hours each.
The machine has some of the best scores we've see in 13 - inch class notebooks, in all of our tests —
looping video,
web browsing, and our aggressive Basemark
web benchmark runs.
I tried an HD video
loop at 50 % screen and got over 8 hours, but in general office use as a production PC (Office 365,
Web browsing, email, notifications) that came down to around six hours.
You can push battery life to about three and a half, or maybe four hours if you're just
web browsing or working, but our video
loop test placed the Predator 15 at four hours and five minutes.
Peacekeeper, a
looped web browsing benchmark, drained a full charge in five hours and three minutes.
Its battery technically has more juice in it, but it doesn't last as long as the XPS 13, offering just 10 hours in the 1080p video
loop test and an hour less in the
web -
browsing test too.
In the end, the HP's slightly lower performance when pushing the CPU hard and its smaller screen resulted in much better battery life in our aggressive Basemark browser benchmark test and just slightly better battery life when
browsing the
web and
looping a local video.
The HP ZBook 14u also managed to run our
web browsing test, which
loops through a series of popular
web pages, for almost seven and a half hours.