My AMD Framework 13 running Fedora (an officially supported option: https://frame.work/linux ) also gets around that amount of battery life. And can run games surprisingly well.

▲ aurareturn 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

  My AMD Framework 13 running Fedora (an officially supported option: https://frame.work/linux ) also gets around that amount of battery life. And can run games surprisingly well.

Macs don't throttle when you unplug it. All AMD laptops do.

Even when plugged in, AMD laptops are quite a bit slower than Macs. When unplugged, it's not even close.

▲ umbra07 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That puts you at just over 5W average on a 61whr battery. I find that very hard to believe. 5W is achievable if you drastically limit the CPU governor, physically disable the mic/camera, using a chart-topping power-efficient SSD, all while actually doing nothing. Just a single YouTube video in a single firefox tab will bring you up to at least 10W.

	▲	kllrnohj 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Just a single YouTube video in a single firefox tab will bring you up to at least 10W. 10W for video playback is a lot. 5w average for light workloads is not unrealistic... I think your perception of power consumption is a number of years out of date at this point. After all, Apple claims 18 hours from a 54watt-hour battery - you really think nobody else can get within 2x of that?

▲ darthrupert 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Does it really? I had an AMD framework at one point, and I seem to remember 5 hour use times on battery, max.