Aftershock Titan - Dual-GPU Desktop Quality Notebook Gaming

Battery Life & Portability Index

Battery Life

Gaming notebooks tend to follow the formula of more power = less battery life and portability. In the case of the Titan, its power is provided by a 6-cell 89WHr battery, which is very similar in capacity to the battery used by Dell in its Alienware M17XR4. The Titan also uses Windows 8, whereas all of our other notebooks are running Windows 7 - some evidence suggests that Windows 8 is less power consuming than previous versions of Windows.

The Titan's battery life wasn't great, but was not significantly worse than our other notebooks, lasting 1 hour and 55 minutes, placing it right behind the Alienware M17XR4. Do note that PowerMark benchmarks battery life through non-gaming usage, mainly word processing, internet browsing and some light multimedia use, so don't expect it to last as long if you're gaming without the power supply plugged in.

Power consumption was rather high, due to the unit's dual GPUs sucking up power, even when not actively in use.

Portability Index

Our Portability Index factors in battery life, weight and volume so you can see which notebook is the most worthwhile to carry around. Gaming notebooks generally aren't meant to be portable, and the Titan is certainly no exception. Already weighing a hefty 4.5kg, if you do plan on taking it out with you and getting any serious gaming done, you'll also need to carry its monstrous 1.5kg power brick with you. As you can see from our graph below, the Titan's ratio is already quite poor, sitting at 0.068, with only the 5.3kg M17X R4 scoring worse. When we included the battery as part of its calculation, this plummeted to 0.040 (although do note that none of the other notebooks include the power brick as part of their score).