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Stating facts is cheerleading?
Just saying, if you had spent as much on a laptop as you did on a MacBook, you would get a full work days of battery.
It's the same failure point apple fans have about Android. Yeah there are cheap androids. They suck, but also they cost$100-$200 new. What's apples offering in that price range?
Realistically with the new apple M-series stuff this is just not the case. The battery life is absolutely nuts. Especially compared to high end Linux laptops.
Source: forced to use apple for work
The new Snapdragon laptops are getting 15h+ of battery life, which is a couple of hours less than the new Macs (macs have bigger batteries) in the same benchmarks. The next gen Ryzen AI 300 Omnibook is said to have 20h+... but why do people want so much out of their battery? I've only used laptops for work and I can't remember being more than a couple of hours at a time outside a dock.
Do any of the Snapdragon laptops not suck? I haven't used any of them, but I'm looking for:
I'm excited to get a new Macbook Pro next year (our company has a 4-year replacement cycle), mostly for better CPU performance (my coworker's M1 runs our tests in 1/4 the time vs my Intel Macbook Pro) and battery life (mine frequently dies in meetings), but there's no way I'm buying one for myself. So I'm looking for an alternative.
I'd really like a Framework, but it doesn't have physical mouse buttons (very strong preference) or a TrackPoint (I can budge here), and the keyboard layout looks kind of crappy. The best so far seems to be the ThinkPad T14s Gen 6, but I'm really trying to get away from ThinkPad due to their horrendous Motorola bootloader unlock policy (i.e. you agree to never resell your device, and your warranty is void), and if that's the direction their company is going, I would prefer to avoid them, and it's kind of expensive (starts at $1275). The rest that I've seen seem to have crappy keyboards and no mouse buttons.
I wouldn't pay the premium to be a beta tester for Qualcomm for the new Snapdragons. They'll be cheaper, have better drivers and more laptops to choose from in a couple of years.
Yeah, that's what I'm hoping for. I can probably wait a year or two before needing a replacement, and it would be extra cool if Framework releases one with ARM.
Ultra long haul flight, plus time spent at the terminal?
What terminals don't have power outlets easily available? I think even many planes do, although I haven't paid attention to that because I've never needed it.
You're probably right, that's just the only use case for twenty hours of battery life I could think of.
I've been in plenty of terminals w/o power outlets, or where the outlets are all taken. People seem to flock to them like crazy, and not having to deal with that is nice.
the battery life of machines with hot swapable batteries is arguably better considering you can hot swap them forever. And with more modern hardware, they're a lot more power efficient so you could get a ton of work done on a handful of batts
source: i understand how hardware works.
Yeah, but you have to carry batteries around.
I'm not a fan of Apple either, but you have to admit they've got the ultra portable laptop figured out.
well i mean aside from the part where the intel laptops were engineered like shit and didn't work because they couldn't cool themselves, yeah. And the part where they tried to make the butterfly keyboard, and the part where the accidentally made the display cable too short, and still haven't put out a repair tab for that one yet.
And the part where they accidentally put the gnd next to 51v causing it to immediately short and kill the entire device if even so much as a little bit of water showed up. The part where they only put USB C on their laptops and never put USB C on their phones, even though the whole point of using USB C was that it's "one cable"
or the part where the release the ipad pro as a laptop replacement and it's still not a laptop replacement because they refuse to make the OS anything more usable than a tablet, or the part where the new macbooks are shipped with 8GB of ram at all, for some reason. I don't what the point of that is. Just ship with 16 minimum.
And the part where the also fucked up hardware crypto so bad they had to disable it permanently killing their crypto speeds, but hey, they're new to the game, they havent been making their own hardware since... Oh about 2010. Or like that one iphone 6 release they did, where it was a little bendy.
but yeah no it seems like they finally figured out how to make a laptop. I can certainly give them that.
Yeah, it sucks. To be fair, I hated their keyboards before and after the butterfly keyboard nonsense, I much prefer the deeper keyboard travel of my Thinkpad.
Eh, I think that's overblown. I have a 2019 Intel Mac for work, and nobody in my office has had that problem, and we've all had our laptops for 3-4 years. Our company replacement cycle is 4 years, and it's looking like I'm not going to have that problem at all.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I'm just saying that I haven't experienced it in our work setting. I certainly wouldn't buy one for my personal computer because I expect more than 4 years of life from it (I'm typing this on my E495 from 5 years ago, and I plan to keep it for a couple more years).
What does that have to do with their laptops? Same with the iPad.
My coworkers have M-series laptops for work, and they're way nicer than my Intel mac in terms of performance (>4x faster running our test suite and building Docker containers), battery life, and other features (they have the magnetic power port again). I'd never buy one because it doesn't run Linux properly and I hate the Apple ecosystem, but the M-series chips are quite nice.
yeah, the thinkpad keyboards are some of the best in the industry.
apple themselves even made the cable longer in future revisions. They just never updated it in the older released models. Which they really should've done.
apples entire gimmick is the "ecosystem" and they spent MANY years trying to make the ecosystem blatantly worse for no reason other than "why change lightning" even though the dongle life had already been started by that point, why not just go full into USB C at that point and make the ecosystem complete? Apple fans are even questioning this decision.
i'd say the primary reason this is true is that apple does selective engineering, going from the last intel mac to the first m series mac this is super apparent, it had a real chassis that was properly thick, and a real selection of IO ports, i believe this has waned with the newer models, which is stupid IMO. But they did make a good laptop that one time at least. It's not even like apple was super restricted by cooling in their intel macs they literally just didn't try. In one of their recent air models they dont even have an active heatsink cooling the CPU. It's a passive heatsink that gets passive airflow from a fan somewhere else in the machine.
The chips are nice, but only in the selective vision that they function under. If they were open and more modular, i would be a lot more supportive of it, but apple being apple ruins just about everything they touch unfortunately.
Absolutely agreed. I've seen plenty of videos by Louis Rossmann about it, so I absolutely know it's an issue. However, he made the claim that it still isn't fixed in later models, so I'm going on the assumption that mine is affected, I just haven't triggered it (probably because we don't open and close the laptop lid very often).
I thought the "ecosystem" was the software suite, not hardware. So things like iMessage and iCloud working seamlessly between devices.
Honestly, being a "fan" of any company is stupid. I can't really think of a single company that I'd protect bad decisions from, except maybe Valve because they have such a long track-record of not sucking, and they're pretty much the only company that directly makes my life better on my Linux systems.
yeah, the specific mode of failure would be repeated opening and closing, and especially opening all the way. It's still really scummy that they never did an official repair recall for it, or at least a free repair service for that specific issue, since it cant be super common.
yeah, and apple moved to use entirely USB C on their macbooks for a similar reason, i don't see why that shouldnt be an ecosystem problem considering the one place where it's not USB C is the phone, which is also in the ecosystem. It's one cable, except for the legacy lightning connector that your phone in the equivalent ecosystem also has to use. Which means you have to carry at least two cables, maybe three, because your iphones charging cable is probably USB A not C. Though they recently moved most of their charging over to USB C so that's alleviated at least/
yeah, i certainly wouldn't either. I bought intel 12th gen after buying AMD for my workstation (cheap and high IPC/clock chip) though i'm not buying intel 13th or 14th gen lmao.
As for valve, im not really sure they've ever had a bad decision, more like bad maintenance of something like TF2. Outside of that maybe, but they're very receptive to the market on account of gaben being the way he is.
My understanding is that they committed to 10 years of support for the lightning connector, which was released before USB-C became a thing. I can't find a source for that, but it lines up pretty well with the timing of things (introduced in 2012, replaced around 2023), and I wouldn't be surprised if they made a deal like that.
that's a possibility, but i feel like that's a really shitty excuse especially for newly manufactured phones, apple only just recently stopped shipping charging blocks with their phones, i believe they still ship cables though.
It's like committing to funding 300 billion dollars of coal power plants, only to have natural gas become a big deal in 5 years and then pivoting to natural gas, i feel like it's just, normal.
There's more to it than just the cables, there's all of the companies that integrate with their phones. There are a ton of accessories for iPhone, and they probably have contractual obligations to maintain compatibility for some amount of time.
and they all pay for the licensed lightning cable, they would love for nothing more than using USB C instead, apple doesn't even have to stop producing lightning cables. They just have to stop using them on phones.
This is like the equivalent of not being able to manufacture a car because you slightly changed the design of how the transmission mounts to fix the problem where the transmission fucking grenades itself all because "well maintenance is hard"
It's insane. I really want one for that reason, but ThinkPad with a ugreen 145 Watt battery bank gives me 16 hours of use. That's all waking hours.
It's hard to justify spending 3x as much on a single laptop just for that kind of battery life.
It's pretty easy to justify when work is footing the bill.
I'm actually pretty happy with my ~$200 Motorola G32.
Lol, nope, you are deluding yourself.
Look at its main competitor the dell xps,
https://www.reddit.com/r/DellXPS/comments/12kk5to/xps_15_9520_6_month_review_issues/
I have done a full 8 hours of work on my Dell Latitude 5440 before on battery. I put it in bat saver and it lasted me the whole work day.
But I re cognize something: why would I need to do that?
I sat a desk or my couch all day both of which had a convenient outlet. There was no point in doing that all on bat. Yeah it's impressive to have a crazy long battery life and is why I wanta MacBook for coffee shop coding days, but again, there's almost guaranteed to be convenient outlets and I own a 145Watt battery bank if needed. Thus my $150 ThinkPad E495 has been reaching 16+ hours of use without needing a wall wart.
Maybe your use case is different but mine where I'm certainly going to be stationary enough to use a plug or a battery bank means I can't justify the apple tax. Plenty of people have done this calculation hence why Apple still doesn't have an appreciable enterprise market share let alone a competitive one.
Facts about why you should pay more to an unethical company for a use case that doesn't exist smells like a sales pitch to me.
Where are you going to work on your computer for 16 hours straight without access to a wall outlet?
Uh, work? Sometimes I'm in meetings all day in different rooms at my company, and I really don't like bringing my charger around. So that's 8 hours, and I'll be running a lot of stuff in the background, which absolutely drains my battery life.
I also like using my laptop at airports when traveling, and finding a charger can be a royal pain. I've had multiple occasions when my laptop battery died and I just couldn't use it, and I get something like 3 hours battery life (which is pretty decent for a laptop).
I also WFH 3x/week, so it's not uncommon for me to work from the couch or walk around the house when on boring calls all day.
I'm plugged in most of the time most days, but exceptions do happen, and it's nice to not have to worry about battery life. I hope this anecdote helps.
Oh! Oh ho no, boohoo! Mr. Double-Shift-Back-to-Back isn't able to carry a charger to use at the 176 outlets in his building.
Sounds like you don't need a good PC, you need a union.
I mean, I can and do carry my charger, I just prefer not to. I have needed to leave a meeting to go fetch a charger, as have my coworkers, which is disruptive. Having >8 hours battery life would mean I would never need to think about the battery any more, I could just use the laptop all day and plug it in at night, just like my phone.
Ah yes, unethical company, as opposed to an Ethical company like who? Asus who was just caught overcharging their customers on RMAs?
HP? The most evil printer manufacturer on the planet?
Keep in mind my first choice, Framework did not sell in my country at the time, still might not.
Not having to have battery anxiety is not a sales pitch, it's just good stuff, if you'd have a software developer job, you could maybe understand
And you also just betrayed this whole anti-apple shebang thats going on here, it's about the money innit? If you can't afford it, you need to come up with nonsensical reasons why apple bad, don't worry, I used to do that too.
Lmao yessir Ima so poora can't afford a machine that forces obsolescence every few years, made in a sweatshop, not allowed to repair, made a deal with ARM to kill off competition, walled garden designed, lobbies the governments, takes a picture of you every few seconds, preferred by the CCP machine.
Oh gosh if only I could afford a new machine every 3 years from Apple but it costs approximately $70 per month oh no so expensive ohmagod how can we mere peasants?
Listen dude you're paying more to save a negligible amount on power, have a battery that lasts slightly longer than the competitors and much longer than anybody will ever need it to, and suffer much worse customer service. And you think its a status symbol or sign of wealth? You got scammed.
Every 3 years? regular laptops maybe last that long, but I am pretty sure macs last a fair bit longer, I was still working on a 2015 model in 2020 without any issue, only reason I stopped is I had to give it back.
I will be using this one for at least 5 years if not longer.
slightly doing a bit of heavy fucking lifting there, lmao. try 2x,3x,easily 5x in some cases.
I don't, not sure where you got that from, I just think most people hating on it do so because they can't afford it, which seems to be case a lot.
Whatever you need to tell yourself, lol.
TIL that 18 hours is 2x, 3x, or even 5x the 19 hours you get from a 2024 Dell.
if you think Macbook is a scam, not sure how you can say dell is good lmao: https://www.reddit.com/r/DellXPS/comments/12kk5to/xps_15_9520_6_month_review_issues/
tell me more about that 19 hours battery life, lmao.
I didn't say Dell was good, I said your claim was bullshit.
You shouldnt be using sleep overnight to begin with, you should use Hibernate. Sleep leaves the computer on unattended. Skill issue on that one.
as per the proof above, yours is bigger bullshit, or are we now okay with quoting manufacturer specified battery life and running with it and completely ignoring real-use-case battery life as long as it fits or preconceived biases?
The 18 hours from Mac Book is also manufacturer specificied, and if random reddit comments are proof of widespread malpractice then here: https://www.reddit.com/r/macbook/comments/1d6jtuh/battery_problem_on_macbook_pro_m3_pro/
Who are you bullshitting, lol, literally in the comments it says it's the fault of a third party app.
I have also done more than 18 hours, so I don't care about manufacturers specification, since I do have first hand experience, which you might dismiss as anecdotal but the thing is, I don't care.
How long did it take you to find that reddit thread with the whole ass 3 comments btw? Lol
So my random reddit thread is bullshit and obscure but your random reddit thread is legit and relevant?
No, yours is immediately clear that it's the fault of a third party app, mine doesn't have such a thing, are you sure you are okay, like mentally?