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True. But I am usually near an outlet, and with the M series even the overpowered ones just bring you back to the battery life of a good Intel laptop (3-4 hours
by api 1y ago
True. But I am usually near an outlet, and with the M series even the overpowered ones just bring you back to the battery life of a good Intel laptop (3-4 hours) instead of 8+ for smaller ones.
That and running local LLMs pretty much requires an outlet. The GPU goes up to 50 watts. Battery life drops from many hours to less than one.
- adgjlsfhk1 1y agothat 25 watts was just for ram. You still need another ~5 watts for cpu and display at idle, so you're talking about a laptop that lasts ~3 hours with the screen on literally doing nothing. For comparison, my 2021 XPS-13 (with a pretty small 55wH battery) lasts at least 4 hours under actual use (video playback, browsing github, compiling code etc). Also, when your laptop is using 25W just for the RAM, that's ~20 watts less that the CPU/GPU get when you want to power up the CPU/GPU.