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These days I think you'll find that laptops on the thinner and lighter side rely heavily on CPU throttling and other power saving features, as well as efficient
by caconym_ 10y ago
These days I think you'll find that laptops on the thinner and lighter side rely heavily on CPU throttling and other power saving features, as well as efficient software, to achieve good battery life.
You may need to go the "brick" route if you have a heavy workload, whether or not that's due to inefficient software. I've found these days that a lot of software is simply poorly written and drains much more power than it should (the Atom editor is a good example).
- mmastrac 10y agoDoes such a brick still exist? I've seen the new Razor gaming laptop beasts and wondered if they might do as a development laptop with lots of juice.
- caconym_ 10y agoThose Razer beasts are exactly what I was thinking. Probably anything with a primary use case of running a discrete GPU on battery power will be a good bet for heavy CPU workloads too.