Autonomy and heating
Autonomy
Battery life was measured using PCMark10’s built-in battery benchmark. The modes tested were video, productivity and gaming. Power management remained in normal mode and the GPU in hybrid mode. Screen brightness was set to 200Cd/m² without HDR, and sound was output via headphones plugged into the M16 R1’s jack.
As we can see, we’re not dealing with a champion of autonomy, in fact it’s rather disappointing on this point, once again we have a Dell Alienware at the bottom of the ranking. There may well be a problem here.
Heating
To test the machine’s heating, we carried out three separate tests: firstly, IDLE heating, then heating under CPU load on Cinebench R23 for 10 minutes.
The cooling system
Exterior
On the outside, there’s an opening on each side of the laptop, right and left, and two large openings at the rear to expel hot air. Underneath, we have a large grille to draw in cool air via the fans we can see through it.
Inside
Inside are the fans, with the CPU fan on the left and the GPU fan on the right. These blow air through radiators connected to the chips by heat pipes or a steam chamber. Hard to tell without seeing them.
CPU heating alone
In IDLE
After 8 min of Cinebench R23
We start with the heat-up in IDLE and on Cinebench R23 after 10 min of stress. The CPU rose to 91°C in the first few minutes before stabilizing at around 96°C. Power consumption and frequency remained at 107 W and 4500 MHz during this stress test. On the surface, the maximum temperature on the keyboard side was 37°C.
