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To test the battery today we put the machine through three sets of real world situations.
One as a media movie lover on the move, a person wanting to watch HD media on a train journey or bus with two thirds screen brightness (any less and quality suffers).
Secondly as a business man, using the machine for productivity with wireless enabled and balanced power settings with a mid way (around half) brightness setting.
Thirdly as a gamer on the move, with the nVidia graphics card active and screen brightness up high.
Battery life is a major strength for the GT70 0NC thanks to its 87Wh unit. We managed to achieve over 3 hours of ‘business-man' style usage.
This figure will increase for simple web-browsing tasks. Being able to watch the entire 2 hour and 32 minutes BluRay of The Dark Knight with battery to spare is another impressive feat.
Gaming battery life is also commendable but there is no way that you will be playing any modern games using the battery. The system forces our GTX 670M to slash its clock speeds making modern games unplayable even at significantly reduced settings.
This system exposes a problem with nvidia mobile pricing right now. the 7970m is cheaper than the GTX680m and faster, never mind the 670m.
The only issue with the 7970m is the noise and heat it generates. ive heard several laptops using it and they get very very loud when gaming.
I’m quite sure the one shown is the GT780, not the GT70. The GT70 has a very boring design, and the 0nC/0nD are slim.
Either way, it is pretty much my dream machine – 17″ and fast enough for games.
After getting my current 17″, I don’t want to go any smaller, although it’s no good with games.
My bad… I was thinking of the GE range… then again, the GT60’s look like the GE60’s and GE70’s while the GT70 and GT780 look like the GTX683 without the lights. Confusing..
(didnt read the whole article)
According to a website, the GTX 670M is not a Kepler based GPU, this is still a Fermi graphicscard, bigger DIE, less powerful etc..
GTX 670M = GTX 570M (Bad MSi!!!)