Microsoft Says New Surface Pro Is Faster Than 15" M3 MacBook Air

Re:Microsoft Says New Surface Pro Is Faster Than 15" M3 MacB... by binkHN on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @12:19AM (#40424066)

I don't know how it compares, but my recent AMD ThinkPad uses about 1% of the battery per hour while in "modern standby." I figure I have at least three and up to 4 days of being unplugged before it's forced to shut down.

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Re:Microsoft Says New Surface Pro Is Faster Than 15" M3 MacB... by masklinn on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @12:53AM (#40424287)

Pretty sure GP was using their MacBook over the weekend. The MBA is supposed to last something like 30 days in sleep.

Yours is the sort of things I got with my Linux work laptop, and it’s miserable: a few years down the line battery degradation means after a 3 days weekend you have even odds the laptop will have slept itself to shutdown.

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Re:Microsoft Says New Surface Pro Is Faster Than 15" M3 MacB... by BugsJustFindMe on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @12:30AM (#40424139)

I assume they meant unplugged and in regular use, not unplugged and hibernating the whole time.

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Re:Microsoft Says New Surface Pro Is Faster Than 15" M3 MacB... by binkHN on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @12:47AM (#40424243)

The system wasn't hibernating, it was just sleeping.

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Re:Microsoft Says New Surface Pro Is Faster Than 15" M3 MacB... by toomanydoubts on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @01:03AM (#40424340)

That doesn't change much, I guess. Still very little power usage compared to an actual turned on machine.

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Re:Microsoft Says New Surface Pro Is Faster Than 15" M3 MacB... by kstrauser on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @01:26AM (#40424489)

My work MBP has been neglected in a bag next to my desk for 2 weeks now. I just opened OmniFocus on my phone and it shows that my laptop last synced this afternoon.

That’s about normal for it.

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