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I find that battery life extremely uninspiring. I wonder if that's because of Windows, JetBrains or a combination of both. I run a x86-64 laptop with Linux AND
by sspiff 3y ago
I find that battery life extremely uninspiring. I wonder if that's because of Windows, JetBrains or a combination of both.
I run a x86-64 laptop with Linux AND decicated graphics (Ryzen 6850u and Radeon 6800S) and get 6-10 hours of battery life while developing.
Granted, that's after quite a bit of tweaking - I've configured my monitor to go to 60hz, limit the CPU to only 4 cores/8 threads and 2200MHz while on battery. I write Rust with rust-analyzer so the CPU is constantly in use, and my browser of choice (Firefox) is far less optimized for battery life than any chrome-based browser is on Windows.
This gives me a laptop with no concessions with regards to compatibility and it's probably running loops around this ARM based chip, even when running at my tuned-down power settings.
I'd love to have a Linux compatible ARM laptop, but if they don't give you real world double digit battery life, why bother?
- hospitalJail 3y agoMeanwhile I've had my laptops plugged in for 99.999% of their life. Sometimes I'll unplug to bring it to an overnight christmas party or camping to watch a movie at night. Then I'll probably end up plugging it in when I arrive. Just remembered, one time I brought my laptop to a real estate meeting, and it was so boring I did work during it. But the meeting was over in an hour. I'm sure some people like having their computer not plugged in, but a docked laptop is so nice.
- solarkraft 3y agoMy laptop is plugged in 95% of the time. In the 5% of cases not having to worry about plugging in is great.
- hospitalJail 3y agoEven then, I've never ran out of battery. Do we really need more than 6 hours of never being plugged in? I've heard of a usecase, bus trips with buses that don't have 120V outlets... Its pretty niche.
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