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There is something fishy about this article. He starts by saying: > At least 10 hours of battery as I was imagining myself taking 10 hour+ flights every month
by nodata 13y ago
There is something fishy about this article.
He starts by saying:
> At least 10 hours of battery as I was imagining myself taking 10 hour+ flights every month and also taking the laptop everywhere without a charger.
Then he finds his "perfect laptop" from a company I've never heard of, and writes:
> Battery life is only rumoured to be 3.5 to 4 hours – haven’t tried it without charging it for that long
Strange.
- fekberg 13y agoWhat's fishy about it? I've only used it connected to the wall so far, my co-worker had his running for 3.5 hours and the forum thread linked in the bottom of the article has lots of people running it for 3.5 to 4 hours. I just haven't had a change to test the battery that well yet. Also, "I was imagining myself taking 10 hour+ flights" was a joke as I figured I wouldn't need that much battery so I let go of that requirement.
- nodata 13y agoIf a ten hour battery life was a requirement, why choose not test it? Why go to the trouble of plugging the cable into the wall?
- fekberg 13y agoIt was a requirement from the start, but then I decided to not care about battery life at all as it opened up for lots of more alternatives like this one, Alienware, etc. But you are right, I should test that before I actually rely on it having lots of battery. Will do tomorrow and update the article with my results. Thanks for reading
- fekberg 13y agoUpdate: Normal work drained the battery to 10% in a little over 2 hours. This included having Visual Studio running, 10+ browser tabs, some chat Windows, PowerPoint, PowerShell, Steam downloading stuff, LINQPad