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0 pointsDalewyn2y ago0 comments

>Most Windows laptops have abysmal batteries, to the point that you can barely call them laptops.

I've been positively delighted by my two Intel Alder Lake laptops I use during travel for play (ASUS Vivobook S 14X OLED, 12700H CPU) and work (Lenovo V14 G3, 1255U CPU) respectively. I can get 4 to 8 hours off of them depending on use with the charge limited to 80% for longer overall life, and as I just mentioned the hardware are quite powerful in their own right.

>The trackpads are downright unusable.

Both of my laptops I just mentioned have wonderful touchpads. Frankly though, this absolutely will vary by several country miles depending on manufacturer and even model. I suppose I got lucky here.

>And for some reason, so many companies are still shipping laptops with 1080p screens in 2024.

I'm gonna be honest: I fucking hate screens bigger than 1920x1080 (or x1200 for 16:10 screen ratios). My laptop for play has a 2880x1800 screen, but I've got it rendering at 1920x1200 because so many programs just assume pixel densities around that area and either can't or won't handle scaling.

I also have to still do some scaling up even at 1920x1200 or 1920x1080 at laptop screen sizes anyway because everything is so small, but it's still less compatibility headaches compared to physically denser pixels.

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Moldoteck2y ago

4 hours isn't exactly good... To me 4h sounds kinda bad For trackpads it depends, there are some windows laptops with good ones, like dell xps or the carbon line, but mostly these are worse compared to macbooks, if you haven't tried mac trackpad - you should definitely try one

DalewynOP2y ago

That's 4 hours of running the screen (by far the biggest power drain) and doing stuff, it ain't no M*-powered Macbook but to me that's impressive and in the realm of practicality.

My prior experiences with older hardware have been barely an hour or two, which is impractically retarded.

I also have an M2 Macbook Air and find its battery life even more impressive (literally days between charging), but I don't really use it because it doesn't satisfy my requirements which include games (for play) and clean interoperability with other Windows machines at home (for both play and work).