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On most laptops I find using a battery for any kind of heavy work a non-starter anyway. I might send an email or take a call on battery but I wouldn’t even laun
by alkonaut 5y ago
On most laptops I find using a battery for any kind of heavy work a non-starter anyway. I might send an email or take a call on battery but I wouldn’t even launch a heavy IDE. Without aggressive power saving (I.e CPU sits under 1GHz even att full load meaning less than half the performance) then battery is often less than 30 minutes. I should add that this is for scorching hot “desktop replacement” (45W) laptops. But I also wouldn’t want to compromise on perf while plugged in, in order to get more battery time.
- abxytg 5y agoWhat?? I use mine for all heavy work (ide, video editing, Ableton) on battery. Why would you ever purchase a laptop you can't use lol.
- Avamander 5y agoIt's not that the OP would like that, it's just how it is with Intel+Nvidia "desktop replacements". Those setups do not scale too well between workloads.
- alkonaut 5y agoI don’t intend to use it away from a socket so I dont want to conpromise 1% of the performance when plugged in by getting a lower power CPU that has better perf only when not plugged in. What CPU do you have that doesn’t throttle? It’s not an Intel H, I’m guessing an Intel U version, M1, or Ryzen then.
- adamors 5y agoThis may be true on Intel/AMD based CPUs but it has not been my experience on an M1 machine. I have the same workflow both connected to power and not. Multiple docker containers running, slack, zoom etc. There's definitely no performance compromise.
- smoldesu 5y agoI mean, there is still a performance compromise; Docker on Mac sucks. Being forced to use APFS is incredibly slow for local Docker development.