Test office productivity battery life

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Today, UL Solutions released a new scenario for the UL Procyon® Office Productivity Battery Life Benchmark for Windows. This assesses daily usage of Microsoft® applications by constructing a simulation of general office usage throughout a typical working day.

Screen brightness can drastically impact a PC’s battery life

Our new battery life benchmark scenario can compare calibration results between different devices, including the option to bring screen brightness into the testing, which can enhance the consistency and reliability of this benchmarking data. The graph below uses data from our battery life benchmark, illustrating how screen brightness on a PC, which varies depending on user preference, could impact scoring.

UL Procyon Office Productivity Battery Life Benchmark for Windows

This office productivity scenario uses Microsoft® Office applications to simulate a working day. The benchmark uses Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook, with each workload allocated 15 minutes of run time, producing a workload versus idle time balance at the end of the loop. The score is measured in minutes of battery life. Development is ongoing for this to be available multi-platform in the future.

UL Procyon and Testdriver® — better together

Testdriver is a benchmark automation platform for enterprise IT managers, test laboratory managers, hardware reviewers and other power users. With Testdriver, you don’t have to be physically present at the computers you are testing. You can schedule, deploy and run benchmarks on any system from a cloud-based console in your browser. Testdriver collects benchmark results from each system automatically and stores them in a central database. Testdriver supports benchmark automation for Windows PCs and Apple Mac computers.