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[-] fluckx@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

The battery on their arm devices are insane. I can disconnect my laptop at 100% without shutting it down. Go home. Sleep. And then work another 8h without the battery dying on me.

It's very impressive. I can't think of other laptops that have comparable battery life/performance combo as that macbook pro.

My previous (work) dell laptop barely made 4h ( more like 3 ) and was in the same price range. While I'm not an apple fanboy at all, and there are basis things it just cant do natively ( keyboard window management needs an external app?? ), their macbooks are absolutely the best laptops I've ever worked with.

[-] pycorax@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

My Zephyrus G14 could do that too while running Visual Studio. AMD's mobile chips are also pretty efficient and Windows laptops are not as far off from Macbooks in terms of battery life as people think.

[-] bamboo@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Are 12+ hours of intense work realistic on those devices?

[-] pycorax@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

12 is a stretch but the person I replied to said 8 hours which is pretty doable. I was working on building a game engine in Visual Studio which is something I'd consider intense. Granted my model is the 2021 version and AMD has made greater strides in efficiency since, I wouldn't be surprised if the newer models can go a bit longer.

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