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Three made-up examples, one for each verdict. Real reports show the same parts for the laptop you test, and you can save them as a PDF on your USB stick.

Sample report: 14-inch business laptop, 2021

Buy

Overall condition

78/100

Why

  • No faults found in the tests that were run.

Good for

  • College & office: Good
  • Coding: Good
  • Video editing: Okay
  • Gaming: Bad

Specs

Processor
Intel Core i5-1135G7, 4 cores, 8 threads
Graphics
Intel Iris Xe (built in)
Memory
16 GB DDR4-3200
Storage
512 GB NVMe SSD

Test results

  • Battery

    Pass

    88% health

    About 5.5 h of light use. 212 charge cycles.

    High confidence

  • Fan

    Pass

    2,100 → 4,300 RPM

    Speeds up properly under load.

    High confidence

  • Processor

    Pass

    84 °C peak

    Kept its speed at full load. No calculation errors.

    High confidence

  • Graphics

    Pass

    71 °C peak

    No errors under load.

    Medium confidence

  • Memory

    Pass

    No errors

    All test patterns read back correctly.

    High confidence

  • Storage

    Pass

    2,850 MB/s read

    Health check passed. 7% of write life used.

    High confidence
These are samples, not real laptops. The numbers show the kind of results Know Your Buy gives.

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