Sager Gaming Notebook NP8690 - The Chunky Supreme
Battery Life and Portability Index
Battery Life and Portability Index
The Sager NP8690 is one heck of a monster notebook, and given our experience with previous desktop replacement class of notebooks, we don't expect it to last very long. Given that it's using a 3-cell battery that's only rated at 11.1V and 3800mAh, that's a very limited battery pack for a notebook using such power hungry hardware. Let's see how it holds up in our DVD battery life test, which involves looping a DVD movie at 50% screen brightness and volume with WiFi turned off. It should give us a good indication on whether this notebook is one you can carry around, or whether it will be permanently stuck at your table near a power point.
Battery Life
Lasting a jaw-dropping short time of just 39 minutes, the Sager NP8690 most likely breaks our records for a notebook with the lousiest battery life. To be sure, we even ran this test a few times just to be sure and results were similar. This also means the power consumption of the unit should be pretty high and our calculations show it to be so, with the unit consuming a whopping 64.89W. It also doesn't help that the battery capacity is so low, as other DTRs packed a much more powerful battery that let them last much longer. Perhaps the limited power battery pack was designed on purpose since most people won't be lugging a notebook around this heavy and chunky anyway.
Portabilty Index
As for our Portability Index, it's a measurement where we consider the battery uptime of the notebook and divide it by the product of the unit's weight and volume. The higher the ratio, the more portable the unit is. The Sager notebook obviously scores much much lower than most of the other notebooks in this comparison. It's so low, we don't really expect anyone to be using this without a power point and its accompanying chunky heavy power adapter too. In a way, it lives up to its DTR moniker in the strictest sense.