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by birdyrooster 1390 days ago
The MacBook Pro gets 22 hours of battery life, the ThinkPad can't even hold a candle to it.
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the_third_wave 1389 days ago
The T550 gets 21 hours of battery life [1] so I'd say those candles are pretty well matched, especially given the possibility to swap one of the batteries in the T550 with a charged one without the need to shut it down which can extend the runtime well past what that Macbook Pro gets.

[1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/Notebooks/Lenovo/Thi...

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birdyrooster 1389 days ago
If only battery life was the only thing that mattered. The T550 is running a 5th Gen i5 which would be absolutely destroyed by the M1 Max.
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dmz73 1389 days ago
Exactly, battery life alone is meaningless.

With T550 you get a computer with decent keyboard. With M1 Max you get a Mac. Even the best quality Mac keyboard is completely unusable for me and the OS feels like it is fighting you at every corner, I haven't been that frustrated since Windows Vista, so even if the CPU was 1000x faster, the user experience for me is horrible. My old Samsung T700t with 2nd gen i5 and a dock keyboard feels like usability king compared to every Mac I ever used and it also feels much faster once I swapped Windows for Linux.

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