> 40% battery for 4hrs of real work is better than pretty much any linux supported laptop I've ever used

Not sure what "real work" is for you, but I regularly get more than 12 hours of battery life on an old Chromebook running a Linux and the usual IDEs/dev tooling (in a Crostini VM). All the drivers just work, sleep has no detectable battery drain. It's not a workstation by any means, but dual core Intel's are great for Python/Go/TypeScript

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trinix912 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Out of curiosity, does Google contribute the drivers for Chromebook hardware to Linux upstream or do they keep it for themselves? Could it be that they just choose the hardware that works very well out of box with Linux?

	▲	overfeed 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I have no idea if there's upstreaming, but the Chomium OS repo is open source so you could check. I don't know if that would help the wider Linux laptop community, because Chromebook OEMs can only select from a small list of CPU & chipset hardware combinations blessed by Google