- Dell’s XPS 14 proved to have over 40 hours of battery life
- This was during a web browsing test where the laptop’s LG display could flex its VRR muscles.
- This display has the ability to automatically go down to 1Hz with static on-screen content, resulting in huge power savings, as demonstrated here.
Dell’s new XPS laptops have once again been in the spotlight due to their impressive battery life, and this time it’s thanks to a truly eye-opening result.
The XPS 14 was tested by Hardware Canucks as seen on YouTube (as Notebookcheck.net noticed – see video below), and was found to have just over 43 hours of battery life.
Yes – 43 hours, you read correctly, in a web browsing test (under Chrome) with the brightness set to 150 nits. And that’s for a Windows 11 laptop, while huge battery life tends to be the domain of Arm-based laptops. Indeed, Hardware Canucks compared the
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Why is there such a difference here? Well, that’s due to the type of testing – the gap between the Apple and Dell devices isn’t as big in the video playback and gaming tests (but the Next, let’s see why this is important.
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Analysis: VRR situational advantage with the XPS 14
As I’ve pointed out before – when the
This innovation means that VRR can automatically adjust the screen refresh rate down to a paltry 1Hz when there is static content on the screen. (Note: This is the LCD version, whereas the OLED in the XPS 14 and 16 can go low, but only down to 20Hz – although a 1Hz capable OLED panel is coming from LG Display next year).
The reason this matters is that web pages are static content (well, mostly), and so the XPS 14 clearly manages to slow down to run at that 1Hz level in Hardware Canucks’ browsing tests, saving a lot of power. Of course, the effect isn’t as great with moving content (videos, games), as higher refresh rates are required (the LG panel is a 120Hz affair, in case you were wondering).
Notebookcheck.net itself tested the
As always, battery life will be variable – even with the same type of test, depending on exactly what you might be doing and the configuration aspects of the laptop as shown – but getting over 40 hours of longevity on any test is a truly mind-blowing result, frankly, especially for a non-Arm Windows laptop.
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