When "reviewers" talk about a laptop's battery life, it is kinda pointless. It 100% depends what you do on that laptop. 25 opened tabs? 100? What websites? Some websites drain the battery a lot, while others do not. Screen brightness? You change it often? What programs do you use? You use an adblocker in the browser? What other extensions? What desktop environment and do you have extensions for it enabled too? And so forth....
The best answer is a laptop's battery lasts between 2 hours and 8 hours haha. It all depends.
Also, batteries degrade quite fast from my experience. So such tests are quite unreliable.
And one more quick thing (again talking about this) but I've been using my laptop (16 inch screen) with a 4k resolution while plugged in and fullhd when not. The 4k resolution is scaled up to look as close to the fullhd one, else I can't use my laptop, everything is microscopic. Anyway, I see ZERO difference between 4k and fullhd with this setup. Like...ZERO. Idk what others see, but I cannot. Which is great because it improves the battery life a bit if I use it in fullhd rather than 4k.
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There are ways to measure battery capacity - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric…
But for an avarage user all we care about is how long the battery lasts, which can vary depending on how efficiently the laptop and the processor utilizes its power. So yeah, its more complicated than just measuring battery capacity. But I'm sure there are ways to measure these things too, like if I let my laptop calculate the digits of pi for an hour to measure the battery drain and compare it with other laptops 🤷
assembly of one or more electrochemical cells, used to provide devices with stored electrical energy
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