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Originally Posted by asian_XL
Battery is important too, but not sure how you can check it unless you wait 2-3 hrs until it runs out
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I guess the quickest way (but not necessarily the most accurate) way is to just pull the power, perform some tasks that would be similar to what your regular activity would be and see what the remaining time is. If it's a used laptop that's more than 2 years old on the original battery, I wouldn't expect too much out of it. Maybe 1-2 hours of runtime would be ideal, but I wouldn't expect a battery with full capacity.
You should probably set your expectations out before hand with the buyer (taking into account the age and price of the laptop) so that you don't waste each other's time though. HD check, dead pixel check and battery check are probably the core things I would check though. If you don't want to waste time there, you can perhaps have the seller start the tests, and hopefully by the time you get there, they will be done (or if you trust him/her have them send you the results of the test)