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I'm running Fedora with the i5-1240p, but I can squeak out maybe 4.5hours max if I'm just in VS Code and don't have my brightness maxed out. With max brightness and Google meet running in Firefox, I barely get 2. And that's with the "Power Saver" profile enabled in GNOME.

I really love the machine otherwise, but I can't say I haven't considered just getting a Macbook Air (especially now that they have the 15").

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For me it's even worse. Being in a Google Meet with "level 1" blurring activated puts my battery life between 60-90 minutes. I don't know if it's Google Meets fault or bad battery management of the Frame.work or even the browser :/

On my 1240p I've gone 6 hours on 80% of the battery (the limit I set) coding in vim at a reasonable indoor brightness.

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