Dell Chromebook 13 7310 Review

Battery life is very impressive. As I could not run our usual PCMark 8 benchmark, I simply tried to run down the battery in the conventional way, doing small tasks such as emailing, YouTubing and writing documents – things a Chromebook owner would typically be doing most of the time.

With screen brightness at 100% (to try and counteract the glaring reflections on the screen) I was able to use the Chromebook for just over 8 hours before it finally gave in. At lower brightness levels, it would go even further. For a day at the office, then, the Chromebook 13 7310 could certainly manage on battery-power alone.

Power consumption is higher than I thought it would be, but still relatively low.

Idling on the desktop, the Chromebook pulls 48W from the wall, while 56W is the most I have seen the Chromebook use at any one time. Comapared to other systems I have seen with Broadwell-U CPUs, such as the PCSpecialist Lafite, this is fairly high. However, it is still low enough to not be a concern.

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