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Subject: Re: Intel's co-CEO claims retailers say Qualcomm-powered PCs have
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On 12/14/24 8:23 AM, CrudeSausage wrote:
> ...
> People probably don't need 24-hour battery life, but they will be 
> thrilled to have it either way. My gaming laptop boasted of ten-hour 
> battery life when I got it and it can definitely do that if you don't 
> use the horrible software ASUS provides you by default...


My take is that a "long hours" laptop life needs to not be BS in order 
to actually be of benefit.  I can recall getting a new Thinkpad at work 
at one point which bragged about 8 hours ... and when just running 
MS-Office stuff, reality was more like 2.5 hours.

> However, notice that I was apprehensive about the laptop having enough 
> battery life for the task despite knowing that it can usually handle ten 
> hours without issue. My habit of keeping the machine plugged makes me 
> fear not having the adapter around. Meanwhile, when I had a MacBook Air 
> M1, I was so used to not having an adapter around that I wouldn't have 
> feared not having enough battery life. Once you experience the latter, 
> you get addicted to it and don't want to return to a life where you feel 
> it necessary to lug around anything other than the laptop itself. The 
> battery life of machines is indeed going to be a major selling point in 
> the very near future.

Agreed.  Apple's M hardware machines are already there.  Its now up to 
the WinTel world to catch up...

....and for Linux too, if they've not done a good job porting their OS & 
Apps to the Apple M architecture.


-hh