How systems are configured, even at the most basic level, can impact how battery tests resolve. We like to think of battery life as a static number, perhaps with one value for “Idle” and another value for “Load.” But real life isn’t that simple. My own experience is only tangentially related to Linus Tech Tips’ findings, but it does serve to highlight an important point. Microsoft’s included Windows 10 video playback, on the other hand, had no problems at all with smooth playback in that mode, and it offered the best battery life overall. Putting the laptop in Power Saving mode helped, as one would expect, but also made video more prone to stuttering, no matter which hardware decode method I chose. I tweaked settings in both applications, I switched between various hardware decode methods, and I checked which GPU (Intel’s onboard graphics or the Nvidia GTX 1060) was handling the decode. One thing I noticed when I took the laptop on a trip was that battery life was far better when using Microsoft’s built-in Windows 10 video player than when using either VLC or MPC-HC. I’ve been testing an Alienware laptop with an OLED panel (more on that coming this week). The only other thing I’d add is that measuring power consumption and battery life can depend on subtle differences between applications that aren’t always readily apparent.
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