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Toshiba QOSMIO F60 - Red-y to Rumble

By Aloysius Low - 25 Dec 2010
Launch SRP: S$2399

Battery Life and Portability Index

Battery Life and Portability Index

The Toshiba QOSMIO F60 is relatively bulky, and at 2.85kg, it is pretty heavy to be lugging around for most. Ideally, it should have a decent battery life, otherwise, you'll be frantically looking for a power point in order to get anything done on the move.

The Toshiba QOSMIO F60 is powered by this 10.8V, ~4444mAh battery.

On our standard DVD video looping test, we've basically looped a DVD on the F60 with its brightness and volume at the 50% setting. The notebook performed admirably, lasting almost two hours at 1 hr 49 minutes to be exact. That's enough for one movie session at most. Even if you factor storing the media on the hard drive (which means more work to the drive) or streamed over the internet (which would meaning the wireless radios sapping your battery), this is probably the likely average time you'll get out of the notebook from an intensive movie session. Just don't plan on watching extended edition movies unless you're plugged to a wall socket for power.

Power efficiency reveals that the Toshiba machine and its hardware does seem to be more efficient with a power consumption of just 26.52 watts during our battery test. This is in-line with the notebook specs being more tamer than the Lenovo machine compared here. Whether it's more portable remains to be seen in the next benchmark below due to the notebook's heftier weight.

As for our Portability Index test, it's basically a simple calculation where we take the battery life of the notebook and divide it by the product of the weight and volume. What you get is a ratio that shows just how portable a notebook is. The higher it is, the more portable a notebook is and the F60 scores a 0.192, meaning it's actually less portable than the Lenovo IdeaPad Y560 despite having a longer battery life. Looks like the bulk of the Toshiba isn't helping it.

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  • Design 8.5
  • Features 8.5
  • Performance 8.5
  • Value 7.5
  • Mobility 7.5
The Good
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Snappy performance
The Bad
Expensive
Glossy feel throughout the notebook
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