ASUS NX90Jq - Aural Nirvana
Battery Performance and Portability Index
Battery Performance and Portability Index
Well, with the NX90Jq more or less a Desktop Replacement (DRT) notebook, we don’t expect the notebook to be carried around much. Its hefty weight of 4.4kg means you don’t want to be lugging this around without transport, and honestly, it’s a machine best used in a living room or study to accentuate your decor.
As our battery life testing below shows, this is one notebook that will work without a power socket for a decent amount of time. As usual, these numbers are obtained from our DVD video tests, which we would like to add that the brightness and volume were set to 50%, just like in all of our other notebook tests.
Power efficiency too shows that the unit does seem to use less power compared to the other two notebooks that we've compared against. Since the battery capacity of the ASUS and the Lenovo notebooks are quite similar, power efficiency here does play an important role in obtaining a longer battery life. This is perfectly reflected in the previous graph above as well.
Lastly, our Portability Index is a test where we take the notebook's battery uptime divided by the product of its weight and volume. The resulting ratio, the higher the better, just means how much more portable a notebook is compared to others of its class. As can be deduced, due to size, weight and battery life of the ASUS NX90Jq, it’s not a very portable notebook. Of course, that's to be expected for any notebook in its category.