Benchmarks: Power Draw and Battery Life
Mixed results on this page. It's great to see the X3 Plus v3 delivering significant in-game performance gains while consuming roughly the same amount of power as last year's model, however battery life has barely improved.
To gauge real-world longevity, we loop a 720p movie clip with 50 per cent screen brightness and all wireless radios disabled. In this scenario, the laptop fell into hibernation after exactly 280 minutes. Almost five hours isn't bad for a gaming laptop, but it still isn't enough to get you through a full working day.