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Laptop with good battery life

What's your budget? Do you need it to run Windows? Any other requirements?
 
Yeah, we need a bit more info. really. But if you're looking at the budget end then try to get something with a decent low-end CPU, like the Intel Celeron N4100, and an IPS display with Full HD resolution. I recall buying this 'Jumper' laptop for my mum last year after a bit of research and have been pleasantly surprised (beware, there's a more recent version of this laptop elsewhere with a lower spec CPU).


Chuwi also do some reasonable budget laptops, although the build quality on these can be a bit meh.. You get what you pay for.


^^ But these really are budget end.
 
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Macbook air M1 is 14 hours. But as above, we need to know what your budget is, anything you must have on it etc. What's the laptop going to be used for? Is mac ok or must it be windows?

I find Lenovo often sells decent laptops, not exciting at all but get the job done at a reasonable price. A lot of people highly rate the Huawei laptops but I've got no experience with em.
 
Macbook air M1 is 14 hours. But as above, we need to know what your budget is, anything you must have on it etc. What's the laptop going to be used for? Is mac ok or must it be windows?

I find Lenovo often sells decent laptops, not exciting at all but get the job done at a reasonable price. A lot of people highly rate the Huawei laptops but I've got no experience with em.
The battery in the M1 is insane - I can literally go the whole day without charging. That 14 hour figure is for real!
 
I have to hand it to Apple, when it comes to battery life and performance on their M1 based tablets and laptops, they're pretty solid. Even if I am more of a Windows user.
 
being able to charge it from a powerbank that does PD is pretty sweet too, my cheap 20000 mAh one added 22% to the battery or about another 3 hours.
 
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Entry level M1 MacBook Air is £1K.

Could run windows at a pinch via Parallels (Insider Previews of Windows on ARM), but in that basic guise is probably a better dedicated MacOS machine - with amazing battery life as said.
 
I've had both a Surface Pro 4 and 7. Both were good 2-in-1 devices.. like, really good! (for work). But one area where Microsoft always falls down is on those Battery Life claims, they're complete BS. I have never, not even with basic usage and max power saving, got anywhere near the claims they make.
 
I've had both a Surface Pro 4 and 7. Both were good 2-in-1 devices.. like, really good! (for work). But one area where Microsoft always falls down is on those Battery Life claims, they're complete BS. I have never, not even with basic usage and max power saving, got anywhere near the claims they make.
Apple have upped the game in a big way with their new silicon which is not only architecturally superior to intel for power/performance but is also built on a 5nm process, just reinforcing the power advantage. If you don’t have to have x86-64 based Windows it’s a pretty handy proposition.

Intel (and AMD) have some catching up
 
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I do like a bit of competition, it always helps to remove stagnation in the CPU market. I think Intel in particular can get a bit too comfortable with their cycles.
 
Two months ago I've bought an HP Laptop 15s-eq1116ur and I personally feel good with its battery. Definitely a good choice at least for me
So what is the battery life?
 
I find Lenovo often sells decent laptops, not exciting at all but get the job done at a reasonable price.
My experience of Lenovo, both loaded hard with daily calculations (up to 100%):
X220 (2011, Win27) - ~ 5 years.
and T440p (2016, Win 10) - 4 years.
 
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My M1 MBP running W11 ARM using Parallels probably does a better job of managing battery life than my ThinkPad x390 running it on native Intel iron.

Maybe that’s why Microsoft are sticking their collective heads in the sand on the EULA for running W11 on Apple Silicon.

Hear no evil, see no evil. 🤣
 
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