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Re:Surface Laptop 4 by iamcreasy on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @05:10PM (#26799362)
Does any know how they are getting this numbers when it took Apple to move to a different architecture to improve the battery life?
Re:Surface Laptop 4 by neogodless on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @05:23PM (#26799510)
From the footnotes

> Up to 19 hours of battery life based on typical Surface device usage. Testing conducted by Microsoft in February 2021 using preproduction software and preproduction 13.5” AMD Ryzen™ 5 Microsoft Surface® Edition processor, 8GB RAM device. Testing consisted of full battery discharge with a mixture of active use and modern standby. The active use portion consists of (1) a web browsing test accessing 8 popular websites over multiple open tabs, (2) a productivity test utilizing Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook, and (3) a portion of time with the device in use with idle applications. All settings were default except screen brightness was set to 150nits with Auto-Brightness disabled. Wi-Fi was connected to a network.

I think the key in there is "modern standby." What is the ratio of standby to active use? That and 150nits brightness, though that is common for a lot of battery tests. (I personally like 250-300 even indoors.)

Re:Surface Laptop 4 by sagarm on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:51PM (#26801653)
AMD has left Intel in the dust on efficiency as well. It's mostly due to process tech: Intel is stuck on an advanced 14nm node, AMD is on TSMC 7nm, and Apple has bought out TSMC 5nm.
Re:Surface Laptop 4 by ac29 on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @12:53AM (#26803068)
The Intel chip in the Surface 4 is a 10nm chip. Theyve been shipping since last year.