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Are there any that have good (8-10 hours) battery life?
by akhilcacharya 6y ago
Are there any that have good (8-10 hours) battery life?
- julianeon 6y agoBattery life isn't their strong suit; for that, I can see newer laptops having the advantage. My experience is closer to 3-4 hours, but then this isn't something I've much tested - even that's mostly an estimate. It's possible some can do much better, but unfortunately I wouldn't know.
- markvdb 6y agoMy 9 years old X220 has been running for 2 hours of light use. Its battery status indicates about 3:45 hours left. This admittedly is with the 9 cell battery, but still rather good for a second hand laptop I bought four years ago...
- httpsterio 6y agoWell, if you grab a new battery, then yeah. 8 hours of active use on any laptop is pushing it and Linux is generally a bit less optimized with the power usage so your mileage may wary. My old HP elitebook I bought for a 100 dollars (plus a new battery for about 40) managed around 6 hours on Ubuntu with no special config.
- freedomben 6y agoI have a T580 that is a couple years old (so not an older ThinkPad) that has the big second battery in it, and if I'm just coding and only keep one browser open and limit it to 7 or 8 tabs at a time, I can easily get 12 hours out of it (compiles take 2 minutes and run all 8 cores at 100%). I left it running once unplugged (forgot to suspend it) and when sitting idle the batter was still around 18% after about 24 hours, but of course that's far from typical use levels). I just use Fedora and tuned profiles (which I adjust based on needs), but I've also heard testimonies of TLP[2] [1] https://tuned-project.org/ https://tuned-project.org/ [2] Example: https://www.fosslinux.com/2304/how-to-increase-laptops-battery-life-in-fedora-all-versions.htm https://www.fosslinux.com/2304/how-to-increase-laptops-batte...