I am looking for a laptop with good battery life, and normal performance, so that I would be still able to play e.g. Guild Wars 2 in low graphics settings or better.
HD 4600 seems the most powerful from the intel graphics chips, which are supposed to use less power. But most laptops with HD 4600 still get about 1:20 Hours on load. I don't understand. Is win8.1 really so badly optimised that it gets half the battery life chopped off, compared to OSX.
It only gets worse with laptop's equipped with GPU's like 840m or 850m. Although they are only about 300grams heavier because of it, and they get quite similar battery life.
Lenovo G510 - i5 4200M - 48Wh battery - 2.5Kg - Tomb Raider low : 39.6 fp/s - 1h 34m on load
Asus X750LN - i7 4500U - 44Wh battery - 2.8Kg - Tomb Raider low : 129.1 fp/s - 1h 17m on load
(Results found @ Notebookcheck.net)
What's the point of HD graphics? This doesn't make any sense!!! Those were just first results I got when searching for each graphics cards. Sure the Asus has i7, but that should only lower the battery life, and it has smaller battery.
Does anybody have an answer?
HD 4600 seems the most powerful from the intel graphics chips, which are supposed to use less power. But most laptops with HD 4600 still get about 1:20 Hours on load. I don't understand. Is win8.1 really so badly optimised that it gets half the battery life chopped off, compared to OSX.
It only gets worse with laptop's equipped with GPU's like 840m or 850m. Although they are only about 300grams heavier because of it, and they get quite similar battery life.
Lenovo G510 - i5 4200M - 48Wh battery - 2.5Kg - Tomb Raider low : 39.6 fp/s - 1h 34m on load
Asus X750LN - i7 4500U - 44Wh battery - 2.8Kg - Tomb Raider low : 129.1 fp/s - 1h 17m on load
(Results found @ Notebookcheck.net)
What's the point of HD graphics? This doesn't make any sense!!! Those were just first results I got when searching for each graphics cards. Sure the Asus has i7, but that should only lower the battery life, and it has smaller battery.
Does anybody have an answer?