Toshiba Satellite T135 Win 7 CULV Notebook Review

Name: Toshiba Satellite T135 Win 7 CULV Notebook Review - Page 9
Brand: Toshiba

by Jennifer Johnson — Thursday, November 05, 2009, 10:30 AM EDT

Toshiba claims that the T135's included 6 cell battery lasts for 9 hours and 22 minutes using the MobileMark 2007 benchmark. Here at HotHardware, we've been using BatteryEater Pro's Real World Scenario to test battery life in various machines, which is much more strenuous than MM07. Under this benchmark, the T135's included 6 cell battery lasted for 4 hours and 48 minutes. Obviously, there's a discrepancy here, but even a nearly 5-hour battery life is very respectable.

In looking at the graph above, you can see that the Toshiba T135 held up well compared to many other notebooks and was only beat by a few netbooks. In addition, one must consider that the display brightness was nearly maxed and Wi-Fi was on during the test, and both of these will drain the battery more quickly than if the screen was dimmed and Wi-Fi was disabled. Bottom line: even 288 minutes of runtime is a very good score.

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Tags: Notebook, laptop, Toshiba, Satellite, CULV, T135

Jennifer Johnson

Jennifer grew up around technology. From an early age, she was curious about all things related to computers. As a child, Jennifer remembers spending nights with her dad programming in BASIC and taking apart hard drives to see what was inside. In high school, she wrote her senior term paper on her experiences with building custom computers.

Jennifer graduated from the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. After college, she began writing full-time for various PC and technology magazines. Later, she transitioned to the Web. In these roles, Jennifer has covered a variety of topics including laptops, desktops, smartphones, cameras, tablets, and various consumer electronics devices. When she's not playing with or writing about the latest gadget, Jennifer loves to spend time with her family, capture memories with her camera, and scrapbook.

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