Re: Intel's co-CEO claims retailers say Qualcomm-powered PCs have high return rates, points to new competitors with Arm chips coming in 2025

On 12/14/24 8:23 AM, CrudeSausage wrote:

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People probably don't need 24-hour battery life, but they will be thrilled to have it either way. My gaming laptop boasted of ten-hour battery life when I got it and it can definitely do that if you don't use the horrible software ASUS provides you by default...

My take is that a "long hours" laptop life needs to not be BS in order to actually be of benefit.  I can recall getting a new Thinkpad at work at one point which bragged about 8 hours ... and when just running MS-Office stuff, reality was more like 2.5 hours.

However, notice that I was apprehensive about the laptop having enough battery life for the task despite knowing that it can usually handle ten hours without issue. My habit of keeping the machine plugged makes me fear not having the adapter around. Meanwhile, when I had a MacBook Air M1, I was so used to not having an adapter around that I wouldn't have feared not having enough battery life. Once you experience the latter, you get addicted to it and don't want to return to a life where you feel it necessary to lug around anything other than the laptop itself. The battery life of machines is indeed going to be a major selling point in the very near future.

Agreed.  Apple's M hardware machines are already there.  Its now up to the WinTel world to catch up...
...and for Linux too, if they've not done a good job porting their OS & Apps to the Apple M architecture.
-hh