i’ve had a framework 13 from a time before there was any other type of framework, and it’s a great laptop honestly. ive yet to do big upgrades, but just being able to repair it myself is awesome. one time i dented the chassis around where the power button was. no worries, just changed the input cover and bam 5 minutes later it’s like new.
my only complaint is that the battery life is atrocious. i heard it’s better (but still not great) on newer models tho
I have two Intel frameworks, and they both suck in regards to battery life
Buuut, I just have a big power bank in my backpack. Gives me at least 1 full charge when I’m on the go. And at home I just have a lighter laptop due to smaller battery
The only thing that pisses me off about framework, is their abysmal software and communication in that regard. It’s basically impossible to get them to acknowledge or fix problems in their firmware
Out of curiosity, what cpu? I had an i5-1135g7 laptop that I motherboard swapped with a Ryzen 7 5825U motherboard. The battery life on the i5 was atrocious. I got 2 hours out of it doing note taking. Maybe 3 when new and I had the full battery capacity to work with. After the motherboard swap, I got basically double the battery life in the same conditions.
(HP pavilion 15-eg050wm and then I put a 15-eh2085cl motherboard in it)
i5-1340P and i7-1260P
Both FW13
both get maybe 3 hours if I’m lucky. Although they are a couple years old now. Fresh battery got me maybe 4 when lucky.
I have a 25k power bank, so I can extend the runtime quite a bit. The “at least once” above is quite conservative. it’s probably closer to 2. and that includes using it while charging.
I heard the ryzens are a lot better regarding power, so it doesn’t surprise me that the runtime basically doubles
I’d recommend disabling boost and setting cooling to passive.
On windows, if you set maximum processor usage to 99% in advanced power plan settings, it will disable boost. You can set the cooling policy as well. Also repasting is probably beneficial. The more efficient your cooling system is, the less fan usage it will need and you’ll get better battery life as a result.
That’s what I noticed on the i5 laptop, it would kick on the fans doing basically nothing and would kill battery. When the fans were off, the estimates were higher. Also maybe disabling the P cores in both machines might be beneficial.
I have a newer gen 13 and yeah battery life is mediocre at best. I love literally everything else about it though so it’s ok.
I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t near an outlet though tbh.
I’ve got an HX 370 one and aside the battery, the only other complaint is the screen, max brightness isn’t much and I miss my previous laptop’s touch screen
Oh interesting, the brightness hasn’t been an issue for me but different strokes for different folks.
I’ve never had a touch screen laptop so I can’t miss it lol I bet it’s convenient sometimes though
I wonder if the amd models from framework perform as well as other oems in terms of battery life. The other guy in the thread said that his 2 Intel laptops perform worse due flawed firmware.
randombullet@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I have a 7840U with a 55HWr battery. I can squeeze out 7 hours. If I’m power using then 5-6 is typical. With the 63WHr battery, you’ll get about 15% more time with it.
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
yea, that’s what i said when talking about newer gens being better
i have a i5-1240P and im lucky to get 6 hours while on power saver reading PDFs