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... Who would do that? Most people want to know how long it lasts on a charge. If it lasted 30 minutes but was the cheapest, literally nobody would say "If you
by analognoise 6y ago
... Who would do that?
Most people want to know how long it lasts on a charge. If it lasted 30 minutes but was the cheapest, literally nobody would say "If you normalize for cost, it lasts the longest".
- ben-schaaf 6y agoHow long it lasts on a charge obviously depends on what you're doing with it. Normalizing for performance gives you the efficiency of the system for getting work done. Compiling/testing software is part of my job, so whether a laptop can complete 200 compiles on battery power or 500 is something I care about. If you only care about how long a laptop can idle for under battery you might as well take a screenshot, print it out and you've got yourself a couple thousand years of 'battery life'.
- analognoise 6y agoGood point, but by context, wasn't GP talking about the same load? If somebody says "The battery performance is poor" I don't assume they go from compiling all day to writing in Notepad when making the comparison - I assumed they meant "For the work the laptop was purchased for".