The Asus laptop comes with a beefy 76 Wh battery for such a small screen size and yet our original battery life tests were disappointing. With a second unit on hand, however, we've rerun some of our tests and the results are now hours longer.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/We-retest-the-Asus-Zephyrus-G14-battery-life-and-now-it-s-over-two-times-longer-than-before.469441.0.html
More like it.
I think it was ASUS tool that you had in the foreground was keeping the GPU awake.
I remember reading an early review that these laptops have run higher than 60 ghz screen refresh rate when running on battery. It happened when the browser was open and when you scrawled a web page. And it kept the nvidia gpu operational. At the time disabling the nvidia gpu was the only option. Asus was aware of the problem.
P.s. the header on the second table is incorrect.
Did you guys check the refresh rate of the display during your initial battery tests? Anandtech found the laptop would ramp up to 120Hz for no reason (a preproduction software bug)?
Could you also update on fan speed/noise? The initial review stated that the fan was always on. This would be expected on a minimum power draw of 30 wats. Maybe the fan turns off this time around?
Please do update us on noise levels. The only thing holding me back from purchasing this was the reports of fan noise. I understand that a gaming machine can't be silent - but would love to know if the fans kick in during browsing etc and how loud they get when gaming. Thanks.
So... Did you update review and adjusted the rating ?
Quote from: BigKid1973 on September 11, 2020, 11:08:12
So... Did you update review and adjusted the rating ?
If you actually read the article you'd notice that those are the updated results... Reader / Idle increased from 5:42 to 19:00 and WiFi v1.3 increased from 4:01 to 9:37.