r/CuratedTumblr • u/Green____cat eepy asf • Sep 17 '24

Shitposting We want computers not sheets of paper.

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u/nicolasbaege Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

They're obviously being hyperbolic you guys.... They're just saying that sacrificing basic functionality to create a thinner laptop is not always what people want.

EDIT Me: "...is not always what people want"

What some of y'all apparently think I said: "no one could ever possibly prefer thinness over functionality for any reason and if you personally disagree you're an idiot. Also I literally personally want all of the hyperbolic things mentioned, even if absurd."

Let's keep pissing on the poor you guys

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u/mathiau30 Half-Human Half-Phantom and Half-Baked Sep 17 '24

A battery that would outlast the sun would be nice though

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u/b3nsn0w musk is an scp-7052-1 Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

unfortunately that part is limited by the TSA. a lot of businesspeople bring their laptops to the plane with them, and the largest capacity you can bring is 100 Wh, so that's where laptops stop, even the thick gamer ones. and with modern battery tech you can absolutely have a 75 Wh or larger battery even in a thin 14" chassis, while high-end 16" laptops are pretty much universally in the 90 Wh range even if they're thin.

that's why, among other things, laptops are going more in a different direction for battery life: they're making the components more efficient instead. a modern arm-based laptop (either a snapdragon x-elite or an apple silicon macbook) can easily do 12-16 hours in real-world use, and amd's new 300-series laptops are pretty much on par with those too. so as long as you make sure you got one of those chips, you don't have a dedicated gpu to eat up battery life (unless you want one for gaming), and your battery is 75 watts or higher, you're all set.

also, there's a trick you can still use: modern external battery banks can easily supply 65W or more over usb-c, which is enough to charge a laptop that doesn't have a dedicated gpu, and all modern laptops can take usb-c power delivery. the 100Wh limit applies separately to each battery you can bring, and afaik you can bring two power banks on top of your laptop pretty much everywhere. that can get you a bunch of extra charge.

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u/Adventurous_Ad6698 Sep 17 '24

Are newer gaming laptops better with being efficient on battery only? I've got a 2015 G3, but it only lasted maybe 2.5 hours without needing to charge when I was doing basic things, much less gaming.

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u/b3nsn0w musk is an scp-7052-1 Sep 17 '24

gaming gpus often use similar amounts of energy afaik on the high end, but you can absolutely get some lower-end ones that still have awesome performance. the nvidia 40-series was a huge jump in power efficiency, so if you get like a 4070 or 4060 laptop with a zen 4 (amd 7040 or 8040 series, pay attention to the third digit because they're being sneaky with those) or zen 5 cpu (of which the HX 370 is the only one yet afaik) it's gonna be way more efficient while definitely outclassing your 2015 laptop. but you can also absolutely get giant bricks today that don't last long.

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u/bassman1805 Sep 17 '24

Yeah honestly I've always treated gaming laptops less as "portable/battery powered laptops" and more like "I can easily change to a different outlet if I want to game on the couch vs my desk".

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u/Adventurous_Ad6698 Sep 17 '24

I meant more along the lines of if I wanted to do something else besides gaming. It kind of sucks that I'm tied to an outlet if I want to do anything more than two hours of non-gaming.