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I care a lot about battery life benchmarks because, well, that's what a laptop is for: not being constantly plugged. I'm always disappointed when I see "with a

by ucha 12y ago

I care a lot about battery life benchmarks because, well, that's what a laptop is for: not being constantly plugged. I'm always disappointed when I see "with all the laptops set to comparable brightness (around 75 percent)" instead of all laptops set to the same luminance. It's like comparing mileage for cars while pressing the accelerator pedal at 75%.

npunt 12y ago
+1. Masterful. TIL. Totally breezed by that line and didn't think about the difference. My pet peeve in reviews is related - color comparisons sound like people talking about wine (colors are rich and come off the screen and the like). Lots of reviews say this about phones or notebooks that have ridiculously awful DeltaE / calibration.