Eurocom P5 Pro Review, Taking Devil's Canyon Mobile

Name: Eurocom P5 Pro Review, Taking Devil's Canyon Mobile
Brand: Eurocom

by Joshua Gulick — Monday, May 11, 2015, 12:00 PM EDT

Battery life may not be the deal-breaker for a gaming notebook that it is for say, a business notebook, but it’s worth keeping in mind as you shop. That’s particularly true if you plan to use the notebook for other situations, like air travel.

Battery Life

Heavy and Light Loads

We put the Eurocom P5 Pro through Battery Eater Pro and our own Web browsing test. Battery Eater Pro creates a workload to grind your system’s battery down, while the HotHardware.com test refreshes a Web page regularly, giving you a general impression of what the battery life might look like if you use it for light online tasks.

Understandably, the power-hungry P5 Pro churned through its battery fairly quickly, but not so quickly as several of its competitors. The Eurocom notebook hung in there for an hour and 41 minutes in the Battery Eater Pro test, coming close to taking the title belt from the Lenovo Y70 Touch. And in our Web browsing test, it proved it can get you through a decent flight: two hours and 35 minutes. It an area where “not great” is expected, the P5 Pro is decidedly not bad.

Tags: Gaming, Mobile, eurocom, gaming notebo

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.