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But what's the battery life like on the Dell? Edit: Googled for "Dell XPS 15 9550 battery life". Results do not look good. Seems clear the 16GB limit is an In
by nodamage 10y ago
But what's the battery life like on the Dell?
Edit: Googled for "Dell XPS 15 9550 battery life". Results do not look good.
Seems clear the 16GB limit is an Intel limitation. In order to achieve 32GB (like in the Dell XPS 15) they had to use DDR4, which is not as energy efficient as LPDDR3. Skylake only supports LPDDR3 at a max of 16GB. Kaby Lake only supports LPDDR4 in their ultra-low power chips. Comparable products (Surface Book, Dell XPS 13) also max out at 16GB.
In order to get 32GB of ram in the ultrabook category we're going to have to wait until Intel adds LPDDR4 support to their mobile-class processors (Cannonlake? Icelake?).
- x0x0 10y agoEh, I don't really care, though I could see how this could be a problem for some people. But I rarely do more than 4 hours of work away from a wall. And the macbook pro battery life tests are a joke -- 10 hours as claimed, as long as you don't use your computer. Under actual use beyond light web browsing, it's 4-5 hours. Eg watch a youtube video or run intellij or run even one core at 100%.
- aq3cn 10y agoThere is a law that says you cannot put battery more than defined amount while traveling in flights. It is obvious that if laptop has high end specs then it will lose power quickly. Maybe this is the reason Apple did not upgrade their hardware performance wise (just a speculation).