Terragen 3

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Planetside Software’s Terragen 2 is a highly realistic landscape generator used to create background images in films and games such as Star Trek: Nemesis, Stealth and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Our script rende

Cinebench R15 64-bit

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Cinebench uses Maxon's Cinema 4D engine to render a photo-realistic scene of some shiny balls and weird things (we miss the motorbike). The scene is highly complex, with reflections, ambient occlusion and procedural shaders so it gives a CPU a tough workout. As Cinema 4D is a real-world application - used on films such as Spider-Man and Star Wars - Cinebench can be viewed as a real-world benchmark.

Battery Life

We complete three separate tests to assess battery life. Firstly, we run Unigine Valley's benchmark continuously to simulate a lengthy gaming session. This was performed at half brightness with WiFi enabled and the maximum performance mode enabled in Windows.

The next test uses PCMark 8's Coventional Battery Test. This simulates using web browsers, spreadsheets and other light non-gaming tasks that should give you an idea of how long the battery will last under typical conditions. For this test, we reduce brightness to minimum and the power setting to Power Saver mode, but leave WiFi enabled.

Our final test is an idle test to ascertain the maximum expected battery life. We use the Power Saver power setting, reduce the screen brightness to minimum, disable WiFi and let the laptop run at idle. We also disable sleep mode and prevent the screen from switching off.