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Dell rates the battery life on the Venue 10 7000 to last just 7 hours, but in an extremely rare case, I was able to actually squeeze out an even longer runtime of 8 hours and 19 minutes. I wasn't taking it easy on the tablet, either.
All in one go, I put the Venue 10 though a heavy workload consisting of writing in Google Docs while having 10 Chrome tabs opened at a time, Google Music streaming in the background, watching a full length film downloaded on the Play Movies app on top of an hour of streaming Netflix, editing all the images you see in this review in Lightroom and a match of Hearthstone.
The Venue 10 only dropped by 15% from a full charge after running TechRadar's standardized battery test, which plays a variation of the Nyan Cat video at full screen brightness for 90 minutes.
By comparison, the iPad Air 2 went down by 21%, while the Nexus 9 went through an 18% drop while completing the same test. The 10.5-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab S fared better, holding steady at 10%, partially thanks to its larger 7,900mAh battery. Still, all of these results are an impressive testament to the Dell's energy efficiency and 6,000mAh battery.
