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Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless (norden.social)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by MrMakabar to c/degrowth

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[–] Kyatto@leminal.space 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

not only does it have a larger battery... it also uses up that battery 10 times faster while doing 100 times less work :')

I would really like to have modern laptops at like double/triple the size for more battery space though, why can't we have a normal laptop that lasts like a week on a charge?

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I would really like to have modern laptops at like double/triple the size for more battery space though

Mainly because that would violate airplane regulations. You aren't meant to go over 100 Wh because of what most Li-Ion cells do when damaged, overheated, and ruptured.

why can't we have a normal laptop that lasts like a week on a charge?

Maybe because that's impossible without using some really low power parts. Do you like having a black and white screen running at maybe 30 FPS with no brightness to speak off? That's what you would end up with. Okay actually with modern eInk and transreflective LCDs we can do limited colour, but it will cost a fortune.

Even with triple the energy you are going to struggle powering a modern fast machine with a modern display for that long. Higher resolutions, better colours, brightness, and frame rate all demand more power.

[–] Kyatto@leminal.space 2 points 5 months ago

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

My MacBook lasts a week or more already. I’ve had it for almost 3 years and put less than 100 cycles on it.

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is that actually on and working for an entire week or in sleep mode? Obviously sleep mode uses less power. No one is disputing the fact that you can have long stand by times, even if modern laptops have actually gotten worse in this regard.

If it can manage 8 hours of screen on time everyday for a week that would be closer to what I mean and probably what the original commenter meant.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Definitely not 40 hours use, but I get about 20 out of it, unless I’m doing something particularly heavy. Like, I tested BG3 on it for shits and giggles, and got better performance than my 2070 machine, but it drained my battery by over 50% in Les than an hour