[GTALUG] battery duration [was Re: brands matter; Lenovo's brands]

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

| I saw a video recently where Louis Rossmann gave an update on having
| used his Framework laptop for a couple of years now.

| He runs linux and most things work, except apparently sleep mode doesn't
| work properly so the battery still drains quite a bit in sleep mode
| which of course it shouldn't.

That's odd.  I thought Linux support was one of their goals.  And it
should be close to a very standard Intel system.

I just saw a YouTube review of the Arch-based version of Asahi Linux
for Macs.  It seemed to have much much worse battery run time than
MacOS.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFx6R26aRHw>

See 8:55.  4.5 hrs vs 13 hours for playing videos in a loop.
With experimental GPU drivers, 8 to 9 hours.  So there is promise.

This is understandable: they are reverse-engineering everything and
Asahi is still a beta or maybe alpha.

| The Framework laptops at least look interesting.

I like modularity but the kind they provide doesn't seem worth the
extra price.

The most interesting to me is updating the processor.  But that takes
a motherboard replacement, which is very expensive.  So far, only one
generation update has happened and that is not worth a lot to me.
We'll see if larger jumps will be supported.