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Battery life is one of the most important things to consider, especially when buying a more compact, portable model like the Gigabyte P35K-CF4 UltraBlade.
Traveller. I watched movies wearing headphones with screen brightness two notches from maximum until the battery died and got a battery life of 4 hours 10 minutes. This is a decent figure
Business use. I turned the screen to half brightness, enabled wireless and then looped PC Mark 8 which gave a figure of 2 hours 58 minutes. That is constant heavy use so in the real world it is safe to double the figure to six hours.
Gamer. This was fun, playing DIRT 3 at Full HD with Anti Aliasing. The battery lasted 73 minutes before the ‘battery low' warning interrupted things. I would prefer to see a figure closer to two hours but cannot really complain about the P35K on this score.
A number of the pictures show the base to be curved? Is this the case?
I bought the machine and it is lovely. However, some serious issues! Sound does not work through the speakers when you turn the machine on! You have to fiddle with FnF9 to try and start it? Whether it starts or not is pure luck. It is currently silent and I have no idea what to do?????
Also the dvd drive bay is very temperamental and often only works on the 2nd or third go.