Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?

Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by cehrlich on Saturday October 16, 2021 @05:19PM (#28891638)

You're actually right.

MacBook Air M1: 49.9Wh | MacBook Pro 16" 2019: 100Wh

The 16" MacBook Pro is rumored to have double the performance CPU cores, and either double or 4x the GPU cores. So for tasks that are strictly GPU bound, battery life could be about half of the M1 Air.

Considering that this is the absolute worst case scenario battery life (assuming of course that they don't make the battery smaller), the new 16" Pro is looking pretty exciting.

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by manmal on Sunday October 17, 2021 @02:29PM (#28898587)

And CPU/GPU core count is only one factor for battery life, so 4x the cores would not even result in 4x the power draw.

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