Freeware of the moment: Battery Eater
Power consumption continues to be a major discussion point for mobile devices, and I came across Battery Eater '05 this morning. This free application will test your mobile computing device's battery by running it down completely while monitoring and later reporting the results. According to the product page:
"During the test it heavily loads CPU, RAM, HDD and videocard. Additionally, the program shows system information, which includes AC status, battery name, type and manufacturer, CPU, RAM and display info, etc."
I'm charging up Sammy's battery right now in the Samsung Q1 UMPC and will fire off the test once we're at 100% juice. While Notebook Hardware Control extrapolates the remaining run-time based on real-time power consumption, I'm curious to see what Battery Eater shows.
-kct
Amtek t700 results, wifi on:
Total time 1:28:15
Discharge rate (minimum) 11426 mWh
Discharge rate (maximum) 11426 mWh
Discharge rate (average) 11426 mWh
wierd thing was a suddent trop in last 15 minutes...
Posted by: JKK | August 22, 2006 at 04:18 PM
Here is the discharge graph:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5988/3639/1600/Discharge.gif
Posted by: JKK | August 22, 2006 at 04:46 PM
Kevin, i showed mine, it's your turn to show yours ;)
Posted by: JKK | August 23, 2006 at 07:08 AM
Coming soon today, I promise. I did run the test BUT I had my WiFi turned off. I may post the initial results and then add a follow up....
Posted by: Kevin C. Tofel | August 23, 2006 at 07:11 AM
good software. I'm gonna run it on my wife's Dell Latitute D620 and Lenovo T60 in awhile.
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Posted by: Andrew | October 14, 2007 at 09:37 AM