You're completely missing the point. You're paying for double of that battery usage and not getting it.
Imagine if Linux was so unoptimized that it needed twice the CPU cores and RAM; your argument would be that "but it comes with twice as much as the other guys" and ends up being twice as expensive and twice as big.
I'm not sure I really believe any os can actually drive NVMe, 3somethingx1080 touchscreen, 16GB of ram and a quad core 17 for 22 hours with this hw setup while doing anything remotely resembling normal use.....
This machine will be my work luggable, I'm pretty sure it'll hold up all day.
First real run is tomorrow (dev+infra stuphz), I'll drop back in and let you know how it lasted if you're interested?
10 more hours on 1 hour would be amazing.
10 more hours on 5 hours would be great.
10 more hours on 10 hours would be a fine thing, but most people's working day isn't that long.
10 more hours on 20 hours wouldn't be very useful.
This is the concept of diminishing marginal returns. You cannot look at "10 hours" in isolation; its value is lower when the baseline is higher.
I've bought these machines for years, at home and at work. I'm definitely not a "most people" in that I've happily used Linux as my desktop environment for the past 20 years. OTOH, I'm very ordinary in my battery requirements. To be honest, at work anything that covers a long meeting is probably 'enough'.
