Why do Laptop Battery suck

[Axelonet]

Comparing specs of many laptops made by many tech giants, laptops have very bad battery life compared to MacBook and tablets. They come hardly 4 hours where a Mac can promise a day of use.

What modifications can one do to improve the battery life of laptops out there?

 

[thor220]

Cheap laptops have 4 hours of battery life. A good ultra book should have at least 8. Macbooks and tablets are designed for light use. Laptops can run everything a desktop can which can be very power demanding.

Battery life can be increased by lowering screen brightness, changing windows to power saving mode, turning off the wifi, and disabling fancy windows features like animations and such.

As a side note, windows isn't as good at saving power as tablets. Android and iOS tablets are designed from the ground up to use little power and have an entirely different architecture.

 

[joshyboy82]

My Surface 3 will go 9 hours playing Pandora and using the Web, which are what Tablets are good for. As soon as I turn on Civ5, It drops to 3ish. Worse than comparable laptops. If you want to compare Apples to Apples (umm...no pun intended, seriously, but since it's out there now...), render a 30 minute video on a $1200 Macbook and a comparable Windows laptop and show me how much longer the Macbook lasts. My guess, about the same.

 

[Purpletalon55]

My Surface 3 will go 9 hours playing Pandora and using the Web, which are what Tablets are good for. As soon as I turn on Civ5, It drops to 3ish. Worse than comparable laptops. If you want to compare Apples to Apples (umm...no pun intended, seriously, but since it's out there now...), render a 30 minute video on a $1200 Macbook and a comparable Windows laptop and show me how much longer the Macbook lasts. My guess, about the same.

Macs have a linux operating system effectively, in reality 2 operating systems for computers exist Windows and Linux.