Even then once you get the new one, yours probably would still fetch decent money on resale considering the upgrades 
And the rog one I returned, like I said when I said I got that one, I had been wanting the Alienware but they were out of stock at sale price,
I ended up getting an open box one for 100 bucks less than the rog when it was initially 350 more 
I don’t know what’s going to happen for sure (if I’ll be getting one at all, I just really want one lol), but I might give this one to my dad to use as a family computer as right now it’s an ancient HP Pavilion G7 2152sa from 2012 with a surprisingly good i5 in it. It’s a 3210M and it is still respectable.
Nice. If I’m going for an Alienware, I’d go for a bottom spec Area 51M and max it out myself. That thing comes with a socketed desktop i9 9900K, socketed RTX 2080 (to near desktop standard, but higher than a mobile standard), 4 RAM slots, two M.2 SSD slots, a 2.5" SATA bay, socketed WiFi card and a 144Hz display.
And you know what? I’d still have the XPS over it, because if I want something that hardcore, I’d build a desktop. The A51M is more than twice as heavy as the XPS, is a lot bigger (it can’t even fit in my big Wenger bag), needs 2 huge power bricks and costs 3 or 4 times as much as the XPS.
Your R5 is no slouch though. You’ve got three M.2 slots (one of them is a 2242 size) and a SATA bay. Though as an Alienware, it has the same issue as all of them, it’s too damn big to realistically carry around all day.
It’s big but I love the fact its literally bigger and better than the crap desktops we have at college 
I got a bag to keep it safe but besides that it’s not bad to carry, I’m a big boy so don’t really notice it haha
I’d break that thin little toy of yours 
jk jk
The a51 was too expensive for me, I spent half that on the r5 and I told myself that’d be about my budget considering 5years and all this crap becomes obsolete lol
That’s a whole different kind of satisfaction. There’s something about annihilating a desktop with a laptop. Both of ours can hold their own against pretty decent rigs, yours a lot more so than mine.
Sorry, but mine’s better built. Carbon fibre and aluminium. 
It’s too expensive, full stop. I’d never have one. It’s like a Hyper car, you dream of one, but you’d never have one, because you’d buy something cheaper, tune and tune it to stupidity.
I reckon ours would both be respectable in 5 years.
Ummm… I think I might have just set the UserBenchmark world record for Intel HD Graphics 630 (mobile) . This has also got to be my worst ever run on UB as I’m currently doing the first battery cycle of Potato mode.
I just clocked 14.1% and the record is apparently 12.4%. I just don’t know why my score isn’t coming up on the leaderboard.
I was just screwing around with my mum’s ancient laptop when I found a remote inside its expresscard slot. It’s been there since the laptop was bought and I never knew lol. Better still, I then found out that a company made external bluetooth mice that plugged into and charged off of the slot. This is porbably the coolest thing I’ve seen on a laptop. I’m actually going to pick one of those mice up to see what it’s like. Screw my Corsair mouse, I want one of these on my XPS!
Unfortunately, the remote I found doesn’t work, because apparently it doesn’t work with regular Vista and needs premium or something.
That looks pretty cool! Never seen those either. I wonder if they’re more practical than a regular mouse
I doubt it. This is old-school tech, the mouse has an 800 DPI lol. The ExpressCard is a now dead ‘standard’ (I don’t know if it was ever considered a standard), it was just an expansion slot. Kind of like a PCIe slot in a desktop motherboard with a variety of things to plug into it. You can get a bunch of different Expresscard adapters, like the mouse, the remote, extra USB slots, an actual PCIe port, etc… As far as I know, Thunderbolt is the modern equivalent of EC.
Sit-rep:
I’m still doing the battery tests, I haven’t forgotten about them, I’ve just been busy with uni and they take longer than you’d think. I’ve got one more run on Power Saver mode to do and I’ll be posting results, hopefully in the next couple of days or by week’s end.
Right, here are the battery test results at last. I have to say, I didn’t expect the numbers to be so terrible, even in the energy saver modes. Neither did I expect Power Saver to do better than Potato in terms of average time. I tried to stick as closely as possible to the pre-determined test plan, but I did stray occasionally, though I still got relatively consistent results.
If you haven’t read the post where I outline my test spec and laptop specs, you can see it here.
This is the main results table which shows the duration of each run in minutes as well as an estimate of the life time of the life time if I had the bigger 97WH battery in the laptop.
| Plan: | Start: | Finish: | Duration: | Estimated duration with 97WH battery: |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absolute Power 1 | 12:35 | 14:25 | 110 mins | 190 mins |
| Absolute Power 2 | 17:25 | 19:30 | 125 mins | 217 mins |
| Absolute Power 3 | 22:15 | 00:15 | 120 mins | 208 mins |
| Potato 1 | 14:00 | 17:20 | 200 mins | 346 mins |
| Potato 2 | 20:20 | 23:00 | 160 mins | 277 mins |
| Potato 3 | 17:00 | 19:30 | 150 mins | 260 mins |
| High Performance 1 | 12:00 | 14:35 | 155 mins | 268 mins |
| High Performance 2 | 18:00 | 19:50 | 110 mins | 190 mins |
| High Performance 3 | 23:25 | 01:25 | 120 mins | 208 mins |
| Balanced / Dell 1 | 18:10 | 21:00 | 170 mins | 295 mins |
| Balanced / Dell 2 | 23:15 | 01:50 | 155 mins | 268 mins |
| Balanced / Dell 3 | 17:25 | 20:20 | 175 mins | 303 mins |
| Power Saver 1 | 14:40 | 17:40 | 180 mins | 312 mins |
| Power Saver 2 | 23:00 | 02:00 | 180 mins | 312 mins |
| Power Saver 3 | 21:00 | 00:05 | 185 mins | 320 mins |
This next table is the average time for each power plan and how many minutes (on average) I got per Watt-Hour of battery capacity.
| Plan: | Average duration: | Minutes / Watt-Hour: |
|---|---|---|
| Absolute Power | 118 mins | 2:06.6 |
| Potato | 170 mins | 3:02.4 |
| High Performance | 128 mins | 2:17.4 |
| Balanced / Dell | 167 mins | 2:58.8 |
| Power Saver | 182 mins | 3:15.0 |
| Average of averages: | 153 mins | 2:43.8 |
This final table is a more in-depth breakdown of the results as well as notes and comments. The minutes are how long was spent during each stage, the percentages are how much battery was used during those minutes.
| Plan: | UserBenchmark: | Video: | CAD: | General Use: |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absolute Power 1: | 2 mins / 5% | 80 mins / 57% | 28 mins / 35% | 0 mins / 0% |
| Absolute Power 2: | 6 mins / 6% | 50 mins / 32% | 39 mins / 37% | 30 mins / 22% |
| Absolute Power 3: | 12 mins / 10% | 68 mins / 47% | 30 mins / 27% | 10 mins / 13% |
| Potato 1: | 10 mins / 3% | 77 mins / 37% | 22 mins / 7% | 91 mins / 48% |
| Potato 2: | 3 mins / 2% | 72 mins / 38% | 20 mins / 11% | 65 mins / 44% |
| Potato 3: | 3 mins / 2% | 30 mins / 17% | 0 mins / 0% | 117 mins / 76% |
| High Performance 1: | 6 mins / 5% | 114 mins / 45% | 35 mins / 45% | 0 mins / 0% |
| High Performance 2: | 5 mins / 6% | 60 mins / 39% | 30 mins / 35% | 15 mins / 15% |
| High Performance 3: | 5 mins / 6% | 60 mins / 39% | 25 mins / 25% | 30 mins / 25% |
| Balanced / Dell 1: | 7 mins / 5% | 60 mins / 32% | 13 mins / 5% | 90 mins / 53% |
| Balanced / Dell 2: | 5 mins / 5% | 60 mins / 32% | 30 mins / 23% | 60 mins / 35% |
| Balanced / Dell 3: | 5 mins / 4% | 60 mins / 35% | 0 mins / 0% | 110 mins / 56% |
| Power Saver 1: | 10 mins / 6% | 150 mins / 79% | 0 mins / 0% | 20 mins / 10% |
| Power Saver 2: | 7 mins / 4% | 80 mins / 43% | 0 mins / 0% | 73 mins / 48% |
| Power Saver 3: | 3 mins / 1% | 117 mins / 60% | 0 mins / 0% | 65 mins / 34% |
Notes and comments:
At the start of every run, I ran UserBenchmark just to see how the power plans affected the results. Below are a series of results tables as well as links to all of the full results pages of each run.
The first two tables are a typical result I’d expect to get from the laptop when it’s in Absolute Power mode and plugged into the charger (how I use it almost all the time).
| Plan: | Gaming: | Desktop: | Workstation: | CPU: | GPU: | Drive 1: | Drive 2: | RAM: | PC Score: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absolute Power - plugged in | 37 | 90 | 51 | 68.7 | 31.2 | 249 | 82.2 | 82.5 | Nuclear Submarine |
The second table is a table of general results for each run.
| Plan: | Gaming: | Desktop: | Workstation: | CPU: | GPU: | Drive 1: | Drive 2: | RAM: | PC Score: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absolute Power 1: | 28 | 87 | 50 | 70.4 | 20.8 | 225 | 68.9 | 81.7 | Aircraft Carrier |
| Absolute Power 2: | 29 | 88 | 50 | 69.9 | 21.7 | 232 | 88.4 | 82.3 | Aircraft Carrier |
| Absolute Power 3: | 29 | 87 | 49 | 68.4 | 21.6 | 230 | 86.2 | 82.6 | Aircraft Carrier |
| Potato 1: | 17 | 36 | 24 | 28.8 | 14.1 | 131 | 56.2 | 50.5 | Jet Ski |
| Potato 2: | 14 | 36 | 23 | 26.3 | 6.76 | 135 | 46.5 | 50.1 | Jet Ski |
| Potato 3: | 14 | 34 | 23 | 25.6 | 8.25 | 139 | 54.0 | 49.4 | Sail Boat |
| High Performance 1: | 30 | 86 | 48 | 70.0 | 22.4 | 224 | 84.2 | 82.7 | Aircraft Carrier |
| High Performance 2: | 30 | 86 | 48 | 70.1 | 22.1 | 222 | 86.9 | 82.9 | Aircraft Carrier |
| High Performance 3: | 29 | 85 | 49 | 66.6 | 22.3 | 225 | 86.7 | 82.6 | Aircraft Carrier |
| Balanced / Dell 1: | 18 | 71 | 45 | 66.3 | 8.06 | 191 | 71.1 | 81.6 | Battleship |
| Balanced / Dell 2: | 18 | 77 | 46 | 66.8 | 8.11 | 203 | 69.3 | 81.5 | Battleship |
| Balanced / Dell 3: | 18 | 75 | 46 | 67.4 | 8.10 | 202 | 74.0 | 80.9 | Battleship |
| Power Saver 1: | 16 | 45 | 34 | 48.8 | 8.27 | 156 | 57.1 | 70.7 | Yacht |
| Power Saver 2: | 16 | 44 | 33 | 45.7 | 8.25 | 155 | 64.4 | 58.8 | Speed Boat |
| Power Saver 3: | 16 | 41 | 32 | 42.2 | 8.27 | 133 | 54.9 | 71.0 | Speed Boat |
The third is a table of averages.
| Plan: | Gaming: | Desktop: | Workstation: | CPU: | GPU: | Drive 1: | Drive 2: | RAM: | PC Score: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absolute Power | 29 | 87 | 50 | 69.6 | 21.4 | 229 | 81.2 | 82.2 | Aircraft Carrier |
| Potato: | 15 | 35 | 23 | 26.9 | 9.70 | 135 | 52.2 | 50.0 | Jet Ski |
| High Performance: | 30 | 86 | 48 | 68.9 | 22.3 | 224 | 85.9 | 82.7 | Aircraft Carrier |
| Balanced / Dell: | 18 | 74 | 46 | 66.8 | 8.09 | 199 | 71.5 | 81.3 | Battleship |
| Power Saver: | 16 | 43 | 33 | 45.6 | 8.26 | 148 | 58.8 | 66.8 | Speed Boat |
| Average of averages: | 22 | 65 | 40 | 55.6 | 14.0 | 187 | 69.9 | 72.6 | Battle Cruiser |
The final table is a key for the PC score classification taken from the UserBenchmark site. The Desktop score is used as the PC score.
| Designation: | Percentage: |
|---|---|
| UFO | 100 |
| Nuclear Submarine | 90 |
| Aircraft Carrier | 80 |
| Battleship | 70 |
| Battle Cruiser | 65 |
| Destroyer | 60 |
| Gunboat | 55 |
| Yacht | 45 |
| Speed Boat | 40 |
| Jet ski | 35 |
| Sail Boat | 30 |
| Raft | 25 |
| Surfboard | 15 |
| Tree Trunk | 0 |
Here are the links to all the results.
Wow, a thread about Pennywise
I don’t follow? On a separate note, the clown’s name sounds like some kind of insurance company or comparison website.
Ha! So you do follow
No, I know who Pennywise is, I just don’t see how this thread relates to him.
Not sure if I get it. But I’m impressed with your work.
As far at it concerns me, can I summaries that between 2 and 3 hours is the variability and that’s not so big a difference to extra select aftere a battery criteria?
Lifespan would still be of interest
Oh cuz it says ‘IT’ and that’s the name of Stephen King’s book
I was running tests to see how long my battery lasts on my laptop. Laptops have different power settings which can be set for maximum performance, maximum battery life or a mix. I took several of those settings ranging across the whole spectrum and ran a set test. I did 3 runs of each power setting to identify any anomalies in results.
The benchmark portion of the test is done by running a software that stress tests the major components in your PC and gives them a score while also comparing them to data from other users with the same components as well as different components. Changing the power plans has an effect on PC performance, I ran the benchmarks to see exactly what the effects were.
Yeah, the average is about 150 mins, the full range in the results is 110-200 mins.
I don’t understand this bit, could you rephrase it please?
Ah. Well, I’m going to state the obvious (just to be safe) and say that IT is an acronym for Information Technology.
Oh. ;-; nvm then
Might be a good place to post a link to your Pixelbook listing (I’m not sure if it’s against forum rules though).
WHAT?!?!?!?