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Beware that battery life on linux thinkpads is atrocious, especially if you go for a comparable screen to a macbook.
by crispyporkbites 6y ago
Beware that battery life on linux thinkpads is atrocious, especially if you go for a comparable screen to a macbook.
- nix23 6y agoNoNo that's not true, i have a X250 with OpenSuse and the batteries hold around 12h, with Windows it was about 13-14h, FreeBSD got to 9h and Plan9(9Front) 4h...but 9Front did not see the second battery...and they are old, main-battery 80% capacity, external 70% Tested with a repeating site load pattern of Firefox (Open Firefox, load 4 Websites, reload them, close Firefox, wait 30 seconds, repeat, on 9Front with mothra) EDIT: All of them without any tweaks (except FreeBSD with powerd but without special flags), screen on 40% EDIT2: If i remember correctly when the laptop was new it had power for about 18-20h with Windows
- crispyporkbites 6y agoX250 is a 1366 x 768 screen right? That's not comparable to a Macbook screen e.g. 3072×1920(!) on the latest 16 inch screen, and at 40% brightness you'd struggle out and about (which is where you need battery life, and again has no comparison to the macbook 500 nits)
- nix23 6y agoNo i have the 1920x1080 12.5", why is that not comparable? Bigger laptop 16" more space for battery's, and yes in the Sun i struggle at 40% brightness. But 40% brightness is what i use 99% at time.