{"video_id":"pXNeoXnU7iM","title":"DOUBLE your Laptop Battery Life with External Power - Mophie Showcase","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2020-05-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":503,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":6.319,"text":"there are two ways to extend the battery life of a device one is to have it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.0,"end_s":11.2,"text":"consume less power in the first place and the other is to add a bigger battery","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.8,"end_s":15.679,"text":"to it now unfortunately for the average consumer engineering a new processor","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.44,"end_s":20.32,"text":"that's more power efficient is not exactly reasonable which leaves adding","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.76,"end_s":26.0,"text":"more battery power as the only feasible option and mophie who there it 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hard","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":488.0,"end_s":492.96,"text":"drive one that i'm wearing today and our community forum which is definitely","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":491.44,"end_s":499.199,"text":"worth a join you know what else i'm wearing today my ltt underwear he's doing it he's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":496.72,"end_s":503.919,"text":"doing it he's not the underwear stop","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":500.319,"end_s":503.919,"text":"i hit the mic sorry","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"there are two ways to extend the battery life of a device one is to have it consume less power in the first place and the other is to add a bigger battery to it now unfortunately for the average consumer engineering a new processor that's more power efficient is not exactly reasonable which leaves adding more battery power as the only feasible option and mophie who there it is sponsored this video wanted to help us make that happen so they sent over a couple of their power stations for us to test they support the usb pd standard which takes the concept of a regular portable battery bank and jacks it up to deliver more power and support more devices including the nintendo switch and even some laptops so let's take it for a spin and see just how much we can extend the life of my razer blade stealth so i'm sure we've all been there you're about to click send on that one last email and your laptop suddenly dies and you go why don't they just put bigger batteries in these darn things well the answer to that question is actually pretty fascinating as it turns out storing massive amounts of energy in really tiny spaces carries some inherent risks and modern lithium ion batteries can catch fire and even explode if they're mistreated for that reason the faa actually set a limit on the capacity for mobile computers back in 2008 to mitigate some of the risk from catastrophic battery malfunction on board an aircraft so since laptop manufacturers don't want to slap stickers on their devices warning you that you're not allowed to travel with them everyone pretty much stays under those limits now back in the day you could often buy extended batteries that popped into the back of popular laptops and then kind of stuck out of the back or the bottom but modern devices are generally a little sleeker and don't tend to have user-swappable batteries so for a while there road warriors had to just rely on laptop manufacturers to follow through on their all-day battery claims lol now many laptops these days are still powered by dedicated adapters and traditional barrel plugs but over the last few years that's been changing macbooks and some windows laptops now support charging via usb type-c but choosing a battery bank that will work with your device isn't as simple as you might think the macbook pro is actually a great example of a kind of picky eater when it comes to portable power because of its discrete graphics processor it can draw a tremendous amount of juice over its usb-c connection so that is where the power station usb-c 3xl that mophie sent us comes in now let's talk about our challenge the razer blade stealth 2019 isn't what you would necessarily call a gaming laptop it's discreet gpu is an nvidia mx150 but if you're willing to crank down your in-game details or run older or esports titles it can actually deliver a decent gaming experience for a little while so our goal then is to double the battery life of our machine using the power station usb-c 3xl this 26 000 milliamp hour beast supports 45 watts of power output via usb-c power delivery now the blade's own power adapter is rated at 65 watts so we might not be able to game and actively charge the device at the same time and we may not get the exact same performance on the go as we would get while plugged into the wall but it should be able to provide some power and therefore more gaming time let's see how much so after gaming playing apex legend specifically for 30 minutes on the blade stealth we experienced a pretty heavy drop to 50 battery then we plugged in the power station usb c3 xl and continued gaming after another 30 minutes the laptop's battery had only dropped by 20 percent now some of you might be saying well hold on a second the battery still dropped so what's the point the point is that if our laptop is at full charge without an external battery we can expect about an hour of gaming before it'll die with our usbc 3xl plugged in we get over two hours so that's over double the gaming battery life now obviously if you're not gaming your laptop won't consume as much power so we were actually able to charge the laptop's 45 watt hour battery while browsing the web or working on word documents and we get about two full charges worth still some of you might be disappointed that our stealth didn't actually gain battery while gaming the truth is though that gpus even teeny tiny ones require a ton of power to run games and as i mentioned the blade stealth's power adapter puts out 65 watts and real heavy duty gaming laptops like the alienware 51m can have power requirements of up to 330 watts so while the 45 watts coming out of the power station usb c3 xl isn't on that level it does at least give us a bit more time to game or at least recharge in between and as a bonus we actually saw better performance while plugged into the mophie battery than we did running off the laptop battery alone that's because windows laptops almost always perform better while connected to power even when you max out windows 10's power management settings while using the battery performance will drop so in apex legends at 1600 by 900 and low settings we saw an average fps of around 53 while plugged into the laptop's own power adapter and 35 fps while running off the laptop battery alone with the power station connected our average fps sat at around 44 so right in between changing gears a little bit let's take a look at the power station hub a combination battery usb wall plug and wireless charger on the nintendo switch now the switch has a usbc connector for power but it can be super finicky when it comes to external batteries so if you were to pick a random battery off a store shelf it might only charge your console while it's powered off it might not charge it at all or it might even damage it way to go nintendo now mophie assures us that none of those things will happen with the power station hub which has a 6100 milliamp hour capacity and supports up to 18 watts of power output over usb type c we figure that should give us some extra matches in smash bros to test that hypothesis we set two level 9 npcs against each other in smash after an hour our battery had dropped by 26 percent then after we continued draining the battery to 50 we plugged in the power station hub after another hour of playing it actually increased by 20 and since the switch has a 4310 milliamp hour internal battery the 6100 milliamp hour power station hub should give you over a full additional charge so thanks for watching guys and thanks to mophie for sponsoring our little experiment and providing the gear that we needed for testing the power station and power station mini both sport a high speed usb c port and an additional usb a port for charging two devices at once they're wrapped in smooth fabric come in a bunch of stylish colors and they fit in your pocket for more power and versatility check out the power station hub it's a battery bank it's a usb hub and it's a wireless charging pad all in one compact device then of course there's the power station usb-c 3xl which can charge everything from a smartwatch all the way up to a laptop so never settle for less than a 100 charge by getting yours at the link in the video description if this video sucked you guys know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button or check out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link below also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like the hard drive one that i'm wearing today and our community forum which is definitely worth a join you know what else i'm wearing today my ltt underwear he's doing it he's doing it he's not the underwear stop i hit the mic sorry"}