What's the chance this will even work on Linux with GNOME?
LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
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Re: LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
#102Tried to open this page on my mobile, good grief the changing advert spam overload kills the reading experience.
Firefox Android + ublock origin. There's ads on the internet? Wouldn't know.
Re: LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dell needs to sell these XPS. The AI button doesn't do the trick, so battery life may do it.
What's the real-world battery life though? My mac gets 8 hours real world; 16 in benchmarks; 24 claimed by apple. Assuming the xps has the same size battery, and this really reduces power consumption by 48%, I'd expect 16 hours real world, 32 in benchmarks and 48 in some workload Dell can cherry pick.
Both my last two XPSes have had shit battery life. Maybe 3.5h when new and only 2h after a few months of use. They also experience a lot of thermal throttling (i7 12700h, 9750h) and newer updates have removed the option of undervolting which used to fix that.
Positive is that the battery life couldn't possibly get worse with newer ones.
Re: LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dell has to deal with windows cuts that in half with all the slop and spyware.
Last I checked: the XPS was one of the few laptop product lines offering native Linux (Ubuntu) as an alternative default configuration option to order It's how I got mine about 6-7 years back anyways, still works great (except the battery) ...never let windows get it's claws into the machine in the first place Edit: to add, I realized over time that having a battery that lasts longer just can't seem to beat my older…
> Last I checked
I checked 10 seconds ago. The only models I can order in my country with linux are Pro Max and a Precision workstation.
If I pretend to be located in the US, an XPS 13 from 2024 becomes available at 200$ more than the Windows variant, and no OLED option.
What a weird marketing strategy from Dell...
Re: LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think many people are spending $1k on an iPad Pro, the only iPad with OLED, to use as a picture frame.
They dont buy it for this purpose. Its just end up like that for a lot of people I know since it just weird device between iphone and macbook that end not being used for much.
It’s a professional mobile artist bonanza idk why you claim it isn’t used much when this expensive device is more than earning its worth
Yeah sure if you buy it as a toy it may not be used for much lol. Check your consumerism
Re: LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
#106> That will help save enormous amounts of power: up to 48 percent on a single charge, Why does refresh rate have such a large impact on power consumption? I understand that the control electronics are 60x more active at 60 Hz than 1 Hz, but shouldn't the light emission itself be the dominant source of power consumption by far?
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Re: LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Copying , Draw() is called 60 times a second .
It isn't for any reasonable UI stack. For instance, the xdamage X11 extension for this was released over 20 years ago. I doubt it was the first.
You forget that all modern UI toolkits brag about who has the highest frame rate, instead of updating only what's changed and only when it changes.
Re: LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last I checked: the XPS was one of the few laptop product lines offering native Linux (Ubuntu) as an alternative default configuration option to order It's how I got mine about 6-7 years back anyways, still works great (except the battery) ...never let windows get it's claws into the machine in the first place Edit: to add, I realized over time that having a battery that lasts longer just can't seem to beat my older…
> Last I checked I checked 10 seconds ago. The only models I can order in my country with linux are Pro Max and a Precision workstation. If I pretend to be located in the US, an XPS 13 from 2024 becomes available at 200$ more than the Windows variant, and no OLED option. What a weird marketing strategy from Dell...
Yeah... Took a moment to look it up now:
Apparently they stopped making the Developer Edition which came with Ubuntu in 2022-2023 (which was definitely cheaper by 100-200 bucks or so than the Windows version with exact same hardware, I recall the developer edition os discount very clearly)
Now the XPS line has fallen as well, as apparently even the SSD now gets soldered to the motherboard, no longer possible to service with basic tools really once it starts failing. My old 2018-ish XPS has an M.2 slot and a battery that is relatively simple by modern standards to replace with some screwdrivers and careful handling (something I think is vital for a workhorse computer, as batteries 'decimate' in capacity within 2-3 years or so in my experience)
I don't even know what's left out there anymore among major makers... when I have to look again, maybe framework... Been hearing about them for a bit now and they seem quite relevant to the discussion - haven't seen one live yet to be fair
Re: LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
#109Tried to open this page on my mobile, good grief the changing advert spam overload kills the reading experience.
Firefox Android + ublock origin. There's ads on the internet? Wouldn't know.
Very weird to see people on hackernews of all places complain about ads on the internet. We solved this like 15 years ago.
Re: LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
They dont buy it for this purpose. Its just end up like that for a lot of people I know since it just weird device between iphone and macbook that end not being used for much.
It’s a professional mobile artist bonanza idk why you claim it isn’t used much when this expensive device is more than earning its worth Yeah sure if you buy it as a toy it may not be used for much lol. Check your consumerism
I not saying anything about device itself.
I just pointing out how quite a big part of Apple consumer base use these devices: buy most expensive one, play with it for a few weeks and then leave it as kitchen tablet that is used ocassionally. You know every second housewife wants to be an artist but very few actually use it for this beyond first few weeks.
Providing this audience with always-on display is a sure way to have a lot of people unhappy with burned-in OLED screens.