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I find the battery life in Lenovo laptops degrading very quickly, comparing to Apple macbooks. I used X1C 4th gen as well as X1 Extreme extensively, and their b
by kvark 6y ago
I find the battery life in Lenovo laptops degrading very quickly, comparing to Apple macbooks. I used X1C 4th gen as well as X1 Extreme extensively, and their batteries are pretty close to dead, only delivering ~1-2 hours of work. At the same time, I'm typing this from a 2016 MBP, which is alive and well, batter is good enough still.
Maybe it's just Linux, which I run on Thinkpads. Overall as a system though, the difference is drastic, not in favour of Lenovo.
- jpalomaki 6y agoThere has been also complaints that if you have 4K display in Lenovo you are loosing quite much battery life. I haven't seen any definite tests about this though.
- ggreer 6y agoMuch of the degradation comes from keeping the battery at full charge for long periods of time. Apple improves long-term battery life by lying about battery percentages and only charging once the battery gets below 90-95%. There's even a new option to only charge to 80%. I get the same behavior in Linux with TLP.[1] I run "tlp setcharge 75 80" and my battery only charges to 80% (and only starts charging if it goes below 75%). If I think I might need power for a longer time, I can run "tlp fullcharge" and wait for it to fully charge. TLP remembers these settings across reboots so I don't have to think about it. 1. https://linrunner.de/tlp/ https://linrunner.de/tlp/
- buggeryorkshire 6y agoMy X1C6 is ~2.5 years old, and I still get around 7 hours of battery. Screen is usually quite low brightness as I live in the UK and it's mainly terminal/VSCode/browser. I used to have a couple of things tweaked like TLP etc but when I reinstalled from scratch with Fedora 32 I didn't do any of that. Still get awesome battery life, i'd definitely buy one of these newer Thinkpads in a year or so.