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I’ve had good luck with cheap or ultraportable Acers in the past, but this has an off-center trackpad and low resolution screen for $899. It’s an intel process
by hedora 3y ago
I’ve had good luck with cheap or ultraportable Acers in the past, but this has an off-center trackpad and low resolution screen for $899.
It’s an intel processor, so I assume real world battery life is in the mid 2-digit minutes, and suspend/resume is flakey on all operating systems.
The processor “turbo boost power” is 55W (whatever that means — the last N intel laptops I’ve had ran hot all the time under linux, macos and windows, so I’ll read it as “typical power consumption for development work”).
Anyway, the battery is 56Wh, so I’m guessing my intuition about battery life is correct, and this gets about 1 hour real world.
- gymbeaux 3y agoMy experience has been that battery life is constant regardless of CPU TDP, reason being the U series CPUs (which I think Intel has since rebranded… U itself is a rebrand of Core m) are in smaller chassis so the battery is naturally smaller. Of course… it’s asinine to put a 15W “i7” in a 15” laptop… so “anything but word processing” battery life is always ass. These days I wouldn’t buy an x86 laptop.. ARM or bust. My M1 MacBook got like 15 hours of battery life, doing all manner of thing. The biggest inconvenience was having to remember to run Docker build to output x86 images rather than ARM since deployment target was x86.