Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?
by danieldk on Saturday October 16, 2021 @03:09PM
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Really? I feel like that's just having any 2021 laptop. [...] 20% for a few hours of video calls just feels baseline.
I had a brief Linux/Windows excursion with a ThinkPad T14 Ryzen laptop. Three hours of video meetings was enough to drain most of the battery in Linux (worse power management, plus no hardware encoding/decoding in some video meeting apps). In Windows, it lasted a bit longer, but the battery would definitely be drained 50%, often more.
The ThinkPad was not a lemon. This seems like pretty normal drain if you look at people's experiences on the web.
I had a brief Linux/Windows excursion with a ThinkPad T14 Ryzen laptop. Three hours of video meetings was enough to drain most of the battery in Linux (worse power management, plus no hardware encoding/decoding in some video meeting apps). In Windows, it lasted a bit longer, but the battery would definitely be drained 50%, often more.
The ThinkPad was not a lemon. This seems like pretty normal drain if you look at people's experiences on the web.