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by dgan 530 days ago
I bought mine in September. Overall, a big disappointment, the battery is less than mediocre (under linux). Unfortunately I missed the refund window.

I bought it after using a mac m1, so i was somehow under impression that i am buying a laptop to be used during a train ride, or watching a movie in a bed. It's none of that, i bought another "movable desktop pc".

Everything else is OK.

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What battery life are you getting? It's not up to Macbook Air standards but I'd say with Fedora and actually using it, it's similar to what I was getting on the MacBook Pro. 6-7 hours or so. This is helped by the fact I can have the brightness down on the screen more than the MacBook for equivalent brightness.
> or watching a movie in a bed

The battery doesn't last the length of a movie? Are you getting hardware decoding of the video?

It does, but barely, and it's not like I am planning "okey I am gonna watch movie in 2 hours, let's plug that thing right now". It's either I was using it, so it's not full 100%, or I wasn't, and it's 0%