Comments on: Why Your Notebook Battery Life Never Quite Seems Equal to the Claims

By: AudiGuyy

AudiGuyy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:15:01 +0000

Pat,
Your post made me think, I always attributed the lower batterylife to something I was doing as a consumer, but now that I have read through the twitter conversations, I came to realize that the measurement is misleading and needs to change and it wasn’t just me. I also have been doing research on Contrast Ratio and Dynamic Contrast Ratios in HD TV’s to educate myself before purchasing.
Same issues apply – but granted worst than the PC battery issues.
Manufacturers need to be held to an honest and open metric system, consumers need to demand this and hold off purchasing until the retailers make it happen.

I applaud AMD for leading this charge, now lets all hope Intel is customer centric enough to help fix it!
Bet if BestBuy demanded it, they would fold!

I also hope guys like you and Harry apply MORE pressure!!!

By: Snarky Truth

Snarky Truth — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:25:25 +0000

I think it will take a major class action lawsuit before retailers and computer OEMs will change. They know its deceiving and are too lazy or apathetic to make a change.

By: Hal Speed

Hal Speed — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:29:05 +0000

Sal, I’m one of the people at AMD that participates in BAPCo and I wish it was as simple as you describe to improve MobileMark. First, BAPCo was chartered to focus on business users instead of consumers that game, play movies, etc. So we need to expand the charter of the organization to include consumer applications. And second, at the end of the day AMD has one vote. We are an advocate for the end user but that doesn’t always align with the agenda of some of the large companies that also have a vote. That doesn’t stop us but it can slow things down.

By: Sal Weed

Sal Weed — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:39:31 +0000

Pat, nice summary here. One thing I don’t understand is why the mobilemark guys don’t just change their benchmark to reflect what end users may actually do when they are pounding on the system. You are part of this org, can’t you make the changes? I game, do HD vids on my laptop. I want to know the battery life doing that.

By: CherokeeCasinoTulsa

CherokeeCasinoTulsa — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:38:18 +0000

i know depend of the use of the notebook.