Microsoft has recently after the launch of its new Surface Pro 2-tablet-firmware-update-released. This update reduces the energy consumption of the wi-fi chip. Therefore, it would be the battery life of the tablet significantly improve.
Shortly after the launch of the Surface Pro 2 from Microsoft took the software giant a firmware update for the tablet. This update lets the Marvell Wi-fi radio is capable of even lower energy levels to work. From the re from AnandTech shows that this is a significant accuwinst results.
In a re with the browser, which again a series of web pages is visited, until the battery is empty, is a visible improvement of 25 percent. This makes the Surface Pro 2 with Intel Haswell-proc on a battery life of 8.3 hours, which is better than the Surface 2 with arm chip, which it somewhat more than 8 hours. The original Surface Pro of last year to 4.7 hours in this test.
Video playback is also visible improvement, but that’s because that test is performed with an active wi-fi connection. In this benchmark, where a 720p video is played is an improvement of 16 percent visible, which now 7,73 hours of video can be looked compared to 6,65 hours of the tablet without a firmware update.
Microsoft released its Surface Pro 2 tablet recently. The tablet has a 10.6″screen with full hd resolution, runs on Intel Haswell processor and has Windows 8.1 Pro on board.
