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#22> As for battery life, Copilot+ PCs support up to 15 hours of web browsing or 22 hours of local video playback. The MacBook Air models offer the same 15 hours of wireless web browsing, but only 18 hours of local video playback. This is so underrated. I got a new macbook air as a temp while my m1 max gets repaired and it blows my mind how I had it unplugged for 2 days over the weekend and the battery is still going. I…
I don't know how it compares, but my recent AMD ThinkPad uses about 1% of the battery per hour while in "modern standby." I figure I have at least three and up to 4 days of being unplugged before it's forced to shut down.
I assume they meant unplugged and in regular use, not unplugged and hibernating the whole time.
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#23I think hours of video call with five other people need to be a metric for devices now.
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#24The hardware looks and sounds great.
Too bad it's running Windows 11.
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#25[dupe] More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40417828
That story is not about speed, it's about Copilot. To be fair, everything is called Copilot now, so maybe fast Surface Pros will be called Copilots too.
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#26Hopefully it forces apple to up the base ram or storage. Competition is good!
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#27Very interesting developments. I wonder how good X Elite's performance per watt is compared to the M3. Then again, Apple will soon restock all Macs with M4-level processors (reported, take it with a grain of salt). M4 beats the X Elite, but its not really a fair comparison since the X Elite is meant to compete with the M3. It seems like the X Elite is close to M3, but uses much more power [0]. [0]: https://nanoreview…
If these numbers are representative, they seem to show apple silicon's efficiency advantage is now pretty minor.
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#28The hardware looks and sounds great. Too bad it's running Windows 11.
The hardware is a Trojan horse to get the software in your house.
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#29Do they sleep/wake properly though? If not, it's going to be absolutely useless for me.
Can’t believe it’s 2024 and Microsoft has not sorted this out yet. I switched to MacBooks 15 years ago because I liked being able to close the lid at any moment and stuff it into my laptop and go. Got burned one too many times trying to sleep/hibernate HP business laptops by closing the lid and they stayed on and got hot. Not once has that happened with a MacBook.
Exactly. I wonder if they actually use their own laptops for work. I had one HP laptop literally melt its own plastic after being left inside my bag for a night. Made it a point to always keep it on a desk overnight.
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#30> As for battery life, Copilot+ PCs support up to 15 hours of web browsing or 22 hours of local video playback. The MacBook Air models offer the same 15 hours of wireless web browsing, but only 18 hours of local video playback. This is so underrated. I got a new macbook air as a temp while my m1 max gets repaired and it blows my mind how I had it unplugged for 2 days over the weekend and the battery is still going. I…
> Copilot+ PCs support up to
Support? Big "hmmm" energy.