Have you ever felt like you’ve got cheated to a precarious level when you bought that new notebook that claimed to have an insane amount of battery life and you fell for it? So, here’s some news for you to cheer you up. You’re not alone! How is it this a cheerful news? Well, no offence but I said so because “misery loves companyâ€, right?
Battery life rated on laptops is measured by companies using this benchmark tool called MobileMark 2007 (MM07). The test was created by a consortium called BAPCo (Business Application Performance Corp.), whose members include, as your instinct says - computer manufacturers and other technology companies. AMD, the only real competition to Intel in the microprocessor business is also a member of this consortium but has now decided to not give hand to this blasphemous test. AMD is saying that the manufacturers, fully aware of the misleading results that this test produces, are flouting ethics and are endorsing the test anyways.
Agreed that batteries degrade over time, however good they are. And they also have the inherent flaw of the “Memory effect†which for those of you who aren’t aware is the phenomenon due to which after certain cycles of charge and discharge; the batteries refuse to charge to their full capacity. This is because they forget their actual capacity and start thinking that there exists only this much left to be charged and stop there. This affects their ability to provide backup power over extends periods of time, but all this is after a few months if not years of use.
The reality on the other hand is that the battery life is not as promised even when it is new. This is due to the false test that uses ridiculously low standards. The battery life is tested with screens dimmed to 20 to 30 percent of full brightness, the main processor chip running at 7.5 percent of capacity and the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned off which are far from reality of practical everyday use.
This proves that it is no ficition.
I'm sure you've experienced this. Please share your thoughts and let's start a movement that can change this scenario. If you have an idea to stop this, please post that too. It'll help the community as a whole.:cool2:
Battery life rated on laptops is measured by companies using this benchmark tool called MobileMark 2007 (MM07). The test was created by a consortium called BAPCo (Business Application Performance Corp.), whose members include, as your instinct says - computer manufacturers and other technology companies. AMD, the only real competition to Intel in the microprocessor business is also a member of this consortium but has now decided to not give hand to this blasphemous test. AMD is saying that the manufacturers, fully aware of the misleading results that this test produces, are flouting ethics and are endorsing the test anyways.
Agreed that batteries degrade over time, however good they are. And they also have the inherent flaw of the “Memory effect†which for those of you who aren’t aware is the phenomenon due to which after certain cycles of charge and discharge; the batteries refuse to charge to their full capacity. This is because they forget their actual capacity and start thinking that there exists only this much left to be charged and stop there. This affects their ability to provide backup power over extends periods of time, but all this is after a few months if not years of use.
The reality on the other hand is that the battery life is not as promised even when it is new. This is due to the false test that uses ridiculously low standards. The battery life is tested with screens dimmed to 20 to 30 percent of full brightness, the main processor chip running at 7.5 percent of capacity and the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned off which are far from reality of practical everyday use.
This proves that it is no ficition.
I'm sure you've experienced this. Please share your thoughts and let's start a movement that can change this scenario. If you have an idea to stop this, please post that too. It'll help the community as a whole.:cool2: