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  • I don’t know about you. But when I get home my work laptop stays in my backpack, and I don’t think about it. I need a laptop with enough battery life that I can get into work the next day and get through a 4 hour meeting without worrying if it’s going to die regardless of what I was doing the previous day.



  • But do they have the same performance per watt under real life workloads?

    Intel CPUs are great at 100% idle, and 100% load. Anything less than that and they tend to fall on their face.

    My 12th Gen. Intel laptop gets about 4 hours of battery life just doing Remote Desktop. Going full tilt it’s fairly efficient. At 100% idle it can be good. But a simple task that keeps the CPU lightly busy and it falls on its face.


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    4 hours ago

    It’s not 12-14 hours of straight working. It’s 12-14 hours without charging. Sometimes it’s just not convenient. Do you always go home from work and remember to charge your laptop? Never forgetting, consistently every day doing this?

    Plus thanks to S0 standby using so much power just the laptop being in sleep is a decent battery drain.