8+ hours is actually feasible if you get a machine with a big battery. It’s just the gamer laptops have terribly small batteries since they figure you’ll never use them, and their CPUs aren’t tuned for efficiency. If I’m just puttering around I can easily get 6-8 hours of battery life on my i9 4090 equipped ThinkPad P1. And my friend with an Asus G14 can easily get 10+, but that’s with an AMD CPU.
But if anything even thinks of turning on my dGPU my battery life dies. And once it turns on it doesn’t want to fully turn back off until I reboot.
100 is the max for going on any airplane in the US. But you can always bring a USB battery bank to get more runtime.
17" laptops are almost always tuned for “fuck battery life”, but since a lot of 15" laptops grew into 16" ones they can still get reasonable battery life. If my P1 had an AMD CPU I’m sure it would get some incredible battery life.
Yeah, laptops dGPUs seems to never get more than a few hours (never say ~8 hours) on a battery even if you don’t actively use the dGPU.
It’s a sacrifice I’ve been willing to make, but for my next laptop I am seriously considering a high end AMD iGPU.
8+ hours is actually feasible if you get a machine with a big battery. It’s just the gamer laptops have terribly small batteries since they figure you’ll never use them, and their CPUs aren’t tuned for efficiency. If I’m just puttering around I can easily get 6-8 hours of battery life on my i9 4090 equipped ThinkPad P1. And my friend with an Asus G14 can easily get 10+, but that’s with an AMD CPU.
But if anything even thinks of turning on my dGPU my battery life dies. And once it turns on it doesn’t want to fully turn back off until I reboot.
Aren’t laptop batteries limited to 99 watthours? That creates a significant ceiling.
10+ is really good. I like the design of the Asus G14 as well (although I only go for 17 inch screens).
100 is the max for going on any airplane in the US. But you can always bring a USB battery bank to get more runtime.
17" laptops are almost always tuned for “fuck battery life”, but since a lot of 15" laptops grew into 16" ones they can still get reasonable battery life. If my P1 had an AMD CPU I’m sure it would get some incredible battery life.