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by rbower 492 days ago
I don't think so. I have a P16 Gen2 and this thing sucks power like nobody's business. 13950hk and 128gb of RAM. I barely get 1 hour of light programming work. I mostly use it as a desktop though, and I have a separate M2 Mac for traveling.
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I believe H and HK (and HS?) are considered portable workstation chips. They draw about 55 watts compared to 15 or 28 watts at max load, and generally run much hotter as they have higher power ceilings. The U (and even lower than that) series are the “typical” laptop chips that give 5-10 hours or so of battery.

Caveat, apparently AMD workstation chips can give good battery. Plus, a down lock/undervolt/power limit will give much nicer battery life on a workstation laptop if you can do it.