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Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email by rocho on Friday August 17, 2018 @11:04AM (#17783346)
I get 6-8 hours out of my Zenbook with ArchLinux. Nowhere near the touted 9 hours of the specs, or the 12+ of the Macbook.

My system is exceptionally lean. I run bspwm and the radios are always off except WiFi. Still, I feel like I could get a lot more from this laptop. I cannot (and I certainly wouldn't want to) install Windows on dual boot to make a comparison though.

What distribution do you use?

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Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email by polkadotted on Saturday August 18, 2018 @05:23AM (#17787646)
How can you compare two different laptops? I'm comparing windows and linux on the same laptop.

I personally use debian unstable with a tiling window manager (awesomewm) without a specific DE. However, I generally setup Mint for all my colleagues on the same laptop lines, and there's one colleague running Arch. We all have very similar battery lifetimes.

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Re:24-core CPU and I can’t type an email by dpkgreconfig on Friday August 17, 2018 @12:40PM (#17784077)
Have you tried looking for offending processes with powertop?
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