GIGABYTE AERO 15 CLASSIC-XA Review

Battery Life

Battery tests were run in three ways for three typical usage scenarios. Firstly, games were tested using the Smartmanager High performance profile, which is a typical gaming scenario. Secondly, the three PCMark 8 battery tests were run with OpenCL using the Smartmanager Balanced profile, which is a typical creativity test. These tests causes varying load on the CPU and GPU (up to 100 %), and the three were averaged out. Lastly, typing (of this very review) combined with some spreadsheet work and browsing the internet using the Smartmanager Power saver profile. For many of us that is representative of a day in the office. All tests were done at 50 % brightness.

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As we can see, the battery has enough for about an hour of gaming, almost five hours of creativity, and very close to eight hours of productivity. The GIGABYTE AERO 15 CLASSIC-XA is advertised as having a battery life of up to nine hours. Given that this is achieved at 0 % load and screen brightness, the productivity result was astounding.


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