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Re:MacBook Air M4 by buildfocus on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @05:16PM (#43273434)
I upgraded to the AMD board and the larger batteries and this improved significantly - 7/8 hours of real usage now, which for me is fine. On linux with minor tweaking. Depends what you need, but surely for most people a full workday without power is manageable!
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Re:MacBook Air M4 by cosmic_cheese on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @05:28PM (#43273586)
Are those numbers with power saver mode turned on? For what this laptop is being used for I don’t need much muscle and would rather need to charge less frequently.
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Re:MacBook Air M4 by buildfocus on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @05:37PM (#43273705)
No, normal usage with no special power saver options. Turning off WiFi+minimal brightness+power saving etc pushes it further, but I'm rarely in a scenario where I want to do that for more than a couple of hours anyway.

I've heard Windows defaults or more advanced Linux games can do better, but at this stage I don't feel the need.

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