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Re:Thinkpad X210 by tbrock on Sunday March 17, 2019 @10:25AM (#19414161)
That's because it's a random chinese board that attempts to provide up to date performance but not focused on up-to-date thermals/efficiency.

If a modern 13.3 screamer with battery life is what you are looking for however, check out the just released Thinkpad x390. It's even more modern and the battery life is a staggering 17-18 hours.

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Re:Thinkpad X210 by mbell on Sunday March 17, 2019 @03:19PM (#19415880)
It has a 15W CPU in it, it's not a screamer. It's not hard to have extremely long battery life in a laptop, just toss an extremely low power (15W or less) CPU in it and get the battery as close as you can to the somewhat arbitrary 100Whr limit that isn't really a limit but no one will sell a laptop you can't take in the cabin of an airplane.

What is hard however, is getting long life out of a performance laptop with a 45-60W CPU when you're capped to a 100Whr battery.

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