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there are two ways to extend the battery life of a device one is to have it

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consume less power in the first place and the other is to add a bigger battery

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to it now unfortunately for the average consumer engineering a new processor

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that's more power efficient is not exactly reasonable which leaves adding

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more battery power as the only feasible option and mophie who there it is

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sponsored this video wanted to help us make that happen so they sent over a

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couple of their power stations for us to test they support the usb pd standard

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which takes the concept of a regular portable battery bank and jacks it up to

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deliver more power and support more devices including the nintendo switch

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and even some laptops so

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let's take it for a spin and see just how much we can extend the life of my

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razer blade stealth

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so i'm sure we've all been there you're about to click send on that one last

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email and your laptop suddenly dies and you go why don't they just put bigger

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batteries in these darn things well the answer to that question is

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actually pretty fascinating as it turns out storing massive amounts of energy in

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really tiny spaces carries some inherent risks and modern lithium ion batteries

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can catch fire and even explode if they're mistreated

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for that reason the faa actually set a limit on the capacity for mobile

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computers back in 2008 to mitigate some

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of the risk from catastrophic battery malfunction on board an aircraft so

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since laptop manufacturers don't want to slap stickers on their devices warning

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you that you're not allowed to travel with them everyone pretty much stays

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under those limits now back in the day you could often buy extended batteries

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that popped into the back of popular laptops and then kind of stuck out of

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the back or the bottom but modern devices are generally a little sleeker

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and don't tend to have user-swappable batteries

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so for a while there road warriors had to just rely on laptop manufacturers to

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follow through on their all-day battery claims lol now many

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laptops these days are still powered by dedicated adapters and traditional

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barrel plugs but over the last few years that's been changing macbooks and some

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Windows laptops now support charging via usb type-c but choosing a battery bank

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that will work with your device isn't as simple as you might think the macbook

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pro is actually a great example of a kind of picky eater when it comes to

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portable power because of its discrete graphics processor it can draw a

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tremendous amount of juice over its usb-c connection so that is where the

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power station usb-c 3xl that mophie sent us comes in now let's talk about our

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challenge the razer blade stealth 2019 isn't what you would necessarily call a

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gaming laptop it's discreet GPU is an NVIDIA mx150 but if you're willing to

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crank down your in-game details or run older or esports titles it can actually

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deliver a decent gaming experience for a little while so our goal then is

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to double the battery life of our machine using the power station usb-c

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3xl this 26 000 milliamp hour beast

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supports 45 watts of power output via usb-c power delivery now the blade's own

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power adapter is rated at 65 watts so we

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might not be able to game and actively

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charge the device at the same time and we may not get the exact same

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performance on the go as we would get while plugged into the wall but it

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should be able to provide some power and therefore more gaming time

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let's see how much so after gaming playing apex legend specifically for 30

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minutes on the blade stealth we experienced a pretty heavy drop to 50

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battery then we plugged in the power station usb c3 xl and continued gaming

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after another 30 minutes the laptop's battery had only dropped by 20 percent

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now some of you might be saying well hold on a second the battery still

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dropped so what's the point

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the point is that if our laptop is at full charge

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without an external battery we can expect about an hour of gaming before

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it'll die with our usbc 3xl plugged in we get over

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two hours so that's over double the gaming battery life now obviously if

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you're not gaming your laptop won't consume as much power so we were

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actually able to charge the laptop's 45 watt hour battery while browsing the web

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or working on word documents and we get about two full charges worth still some

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of you might be disappointed that our stealth didn't actually gain battery

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while gaming the truth is though that gpus even teeny tiny ones require a ton

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of power to run games and as i mentioned the blade stealth's power adapter puts

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out 65 watts and real heavy duty gaming

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laptops like the alienware 51m can have power requirements of up to 330 watts so

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while the 45 watts coming out of the power station usb c3 xl isn't on that

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level it does at least give us a bit more time to game or at least recharge

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in between and as a bonus we actually saw better

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performance while plugged into the mophie battery than we did running off

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the laptop battery alone that's because Windows laptops almost always perform

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better while connected to power even when you max out Windows 10's power

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management settings while using the battery performance will drop so in apex

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legends at 1600 by 900 and low settings we saw an average FPS of around 53 while

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plugged into the laptop's own power adapter and 35 FPS while running off the

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laptop battery alone with the power station connected our

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average FPS sat at around 44 so right in

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between changing gears a little bit let's take a look at the power station

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hub a combination battery usb wall plug

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and wireless charger on the nintendo switch

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now the switch has a usbc connector for power but it can be super finicky when

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it comes to external batteries so if you were to pick a random battery off a

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store shelf it might only charge your console while it's powered off it might

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not charge it at all or it might even damage it

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way to go nintendo now mophie assures us that none of those

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things will happen with the power station hub which has a 6100 milliamp

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hour capacity and supports up to 18 watts of power output over usb type c we

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figure that should give us some extra matches in smash bros to test that

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hypothesis we set two level 9 npcs against each other in smash

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after an hour our battery had dropped by 26 percent

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then after we continued draining the battery to 50

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we plugged in the power station hub after another hour of playing it

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actually increased by 20 and since the switch has a 4310 milliamp

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hour internal battery the 6100 milliamp hour power station hub should give you

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over a full additional charge so thanks for watching guys and thanks to mophie

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for sponsoring our little experiment and providing the gear that we needed for

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testing the power station and power station mini both sport a high speed usb

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c port and an additional usb a port for charging two devices at once they're

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wrapped in smooth fabric come in a bunch of stylish colors and they fit in your

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pocket for more power and versatility check out the power station hub it's a

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battery bank it's a usb hub and it's a wireless charging pad all in one compact

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device then of course there's the power station usb-c 3xl which can charge

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everything from a smartwatch all the way up to a laptop so never settle for less

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