Stating facts is cheerleading?
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Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 5 months agoCheerleading for brands is cringe
kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 months ago
nagaram@startrek.website 5 months ago
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?
vala@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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
datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
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.
nagaram@startrek.website 5 months ago
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.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m actually pretty happy with my ~$200 Motorola G32.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lol, nope, you are deluding yourself.
Look at its main competitor the dell xps,
nagaram@startrek.website 5 months ago
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.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 5 months ago
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.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 5 months ago
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, preferred by the CCP machine.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
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.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 5 months ago
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.
primarybelief@lemmy.world 5 months ago
vala@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Idk if this is a joke but Linux is not a brand.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 months ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mark_Institute
Technically, yes it is. It’s a registered trademark at the very least.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Yeah, it’s not a brand man. That’s part of what makes it great. A brand is something created to profit off of, which always ends up worse for the end user. Linux is not there to make profit. It’s whole purpose of existing is to serve the user.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Espousing this cooler-than-thou nonsense about a non-brand is at least as cringe as jocking a brand
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 months ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mark_Institute
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand
It fits the definition of a brand.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
From the wiki (emphasis mine): A brand is a name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that distinguishes one seller’s good or service from those of other sellers.
What are they selling? It’s free. It’s not being sold.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
linux isn’t a brand though, it’s a lifestyle and a religion if you go far enough.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 months ago
This is honestly one of the most insulting things I’ve ever heard said about Linux users, and it’s so accurate.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
its not insulting, just true. The insulting part is assuming that this is a bad thing :)