Introducing Surface Laptop

Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by eikenberry on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:22PM (#14249693)

They look great except for the battery, it sucks.

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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by 72deluxe on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @06:44PM (#14251341)

Is that Linux' fault though instead of the Dell itself? I mean, Mac OS has app nap and I noticed the difference on the same hardware after OSX 10.whatever introduced it (I got an hour extra battery life!). When I reboot the same hardware into Windows, I get worse battery life than under Mac OS, obviously doing different things and an entirely different architecture (RPC, COM calls etc.) but I know it's not the hardware at fault.

Is Linux architecture at fault for the Dell? Just curious. I wonder if there is significantly different battery life for the same machine running different OS (eg. Windows vs Linux).

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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by eikenberry on Thursday May 04, 2017 @03:46PM (#14268098)

I was talking raw WHr rating, not power usage. Linux's mediocre power management is one of the reasons I put extra emphasis on the battery when shopping for a laptop. My t450s w/ the 6 cell external has 72WHr vs the XPS13 of that time had 54WHr. Plus my Lenovo battery is hot-swappable.

They have improved upon this some as the current XPS13 has 60WHr. But they still are lacking in this area.

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