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Currently running this on my XPS 13. Works beautifully and honestly battery life is insane. _Much_ better even than just 19.04. It's easily on par with my 2015
by ZeroCool2u 7y ago
Currently running this on my XPS 13. Works beautifully and honestly battery life is insane. _Much_ better even than just 19.04. It's easily on par with my 2015 MBP. I'm getting almost a week out of a charge using it for a few hours a day running just Chrome, PyCharm, and Signal most of the time.
- KitDuncan 7y agoI think I am doing something seriously wrong then. My 2015 XPS 13 only lasts a couple of hours.
- cmm 7y agowith laptops, it really pays to make sure your kernel as recent as possible
- softwarelimits 7y agotry to put powertop --auto-tune into /etc/rc.local (before 'exit 0'!)
- egdod 7y ago4 years is long enough for lithium batteries to decline pretty noticeably.
- mceachen 7y agoYup, my xps 15 battery of that same vintage had to be replaced at the beginning of the year (under warranty).
- ZeroCool2u 7y agoSorry, the MBP was my old work computer. I don't have it anymore. I was referring to its battery performance at the time.
- ZeroCool2u 7y agoI think the big differentiator is power top actually. When I upgraded to 19.10, I was prompted to check the differences between the old/new versions of the power top config file. The new version had a few more comments and was clearly updated, so I used the new config file during the upgrade process and went through all the options to make sure they made sense for my laptop.
- rogerkirkness 7y agoAre we the same person? I could have written the exact same post. And was going to. Agreed about battery life while running Chrome and Signal a few hours a day.