
Microsoft is Forcing me to Buy MacBooks - Windows Modern Standby
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Linus Tech Tips explains how Windows Modern Standby causes laptops to drain battery while asleep, arguing it makes Windows laptops hard to recommend compared to MacBooks.
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HN links it as the standard reference whenever laptop sleep and battery drain on Windows come up, including the later point that nothing has improved.
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> After several nights of losing all my free time after work only to wake up the next morning to a dead laptop battery, I treated myself to an m2 13” mbp. LTT just did a video on this: [VIDEO] tl;dw: It may not be a Linux/OS problem, but rather a BIOS problem, which would explain why nothing you did helped. Getting a MBP is valid fix if you disable "Wake for network access" on it.
Read original comment ↗Well, they said that a VP called LTT in response to their video, which is why I said supposedly. Original video: [VIDEO] Follow-up: [LINK]
Read original comment ↗> randomly wake up from sleep in my backpack That seems to be common to many laptops including those running Windows at this point in time: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗In all fairness, windows laptops don’t have functioning sleep either. Only apple nailed it. Edit: This is what I'm talking about: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Windows in particular is notorious as of late for brutally draining the battery while Sleeping[1]. [1]: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗[VIDEO] TL;DW: There's a bug in the implementation of windows modern standby that can cause it to activate energetically expensive operations while "asleep", and most PC manufacturers didn't bother to write drivers for the more effective, but less "feature rich" S3 sleep mode.
Read original comment ↗Rather than a blanket "Linux Preinstalled", I'd like to know about S3 sleep support. Eg, it would be nice to know which laptops still support real S3 sleep, and not just the new "Windows modern standby" mode. I watched an LTT that indicates that Windows modern standby apparently doesn't even work right with Windows. ("Microsoft is Forcing me to Buy MacBooks - Windows Modern Standby" [VIDEO] )
Read original comment ↗No that's not it. The issue is actually pretty involved, there is a LTT video on it, this is the bit I'm remembering: [VIDEO]
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