Comment by hedora

1 day ago

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.

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k4rli  16 hours ago

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.

  • glitchcrab  4 hours ago

    I have a December 2024 XPS 15 and I regularly get 7-8 hours out of a charge whilst doing a mixture of tasks. On Linux too, no less.

pier25  10 hours ago

I put my MBP in low power mode when using the battery and I get easily 12-15 hours with my full dev environment running.

adgjlsfhk1  21 hours ago

Dell has to deal with windows cuts that in half with all the slop and spyware.

  • quantumink  20 hours ago

    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 laptop experiences: being able to just swap an extra battery in and have full charge at will (without soldering and all that 'ish) In that sense I feel that the future is coming full circle to modularity, swapability, repairability - to the point they're becoming my primary considerations for the next portable computing select I will need to acquire.

    • teo_zero  16 hours ago

      > 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...

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