<story><title>Apple Silicon Mac’s have 2-3 times longer battery than PC laptops</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0h8q6D0s74</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m_st</author><text>I can confirm that various Dell XPS 15 models and Microsoft Surface Book 2 and 3 models are just not usable without the power plug for my software development (and very rare gaming) needs. I also need the power plug for a simple thing like a Microsoft Teams meeting that last longer than one hour.&lt;p&gt;Compare that to my MacBook Air M1 which runs for a full day easily. Also, standby works.&lt;p&gt;With Dell I learned it&amp;#x27;s better to always shut down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ubermonkey</author><text>It &lt;i&gt;staggers&lt;/i&gt; me that this is still a problem, because *more than 20 years ago* I switched from Win98 on a ThinkPad to a G3 Powerbook partly because of sleep.&lt;p&gt;I was working almost exclusively in Office docs back then, and the Mac and Win suites were (then as now) file-format compatible. What coding I did was on *nix servers I could SSH to. And I got real, real tired of often-crashing, slow-booting, sleep-sucks Win98 on a laptop.&lt;p&gt;Then I noticed a colleague who&amp;#x27;d come into the consulting group from the design side, and kept his Mac. He could just open it, do something, and close it. And then open it again, and have it wake up normally. It crashed marginally less often than Win98 (this is pre-OS X), but the boot time was MUCH faster, so the crashes were less annoying. I bought a Mac and have been here ever since.&lt;p&gt;And you&amp;#x27;re telling me that even today, in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three, that sleep still doesn&amp;#x27;t work for shit on big-name Windows laptops? That&amp;#x27;s bananas.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple Silicon Mac’s have 2-3 times longer battery than PC laptops</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0h8q6D0s74</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m_st</author><text>I can confirm that various Dell XPS 15 models and Microsoft Surface Book 2 and 3 models are just not usable without the power plug for my software development (and very rare gaming) needs. I also need the power plug for a simple thing like a Microsoft Teams meeting that last longer than one hour.&lt;p&gt;Compare that to my MacBook Air M1 which runs for a full day easily. Also, standby works.&lt;p&gt;With Dell I learned it&amp;#x27;s better to always shut down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>Sleep mode is really bad. I had a Surface Pro 3 which was the first iteration of &amp;quot;connected standby&amp;quot; and it would run the battery down while sleeping in less than a day.&lt;p&gt;I was borrowing a newer Surface Pro from work more recently and hoped with the additional years of development they would have managed to fix it. Sadly not.</text></comment>