I guess but it's more often than not a bigger and more severe issue on oleds in my experience.
I didn't say x elite didn't have power issues just that power % lost due to sleep / hibernation is a non issue on them and that to my knowledge apple silicon mac's were always good here.
We kind of already know the battery life too. Under load it's good @ almost ~4 hrs but light usage is subpar to slightly below average @ around ~7 hrs due to small battery. Might get slightly more since you asked for no WiFi low brightness reader mode use case - but I wouldn't expect more than 8-9 at most.
Of course, this is just my guesstimates on the early test reviews so far. I'm sure more thorough and in-depth tests will be done as more time goes by. So feel free to wait for those.
IPS technology has nothing to do with backlight and dithering - these are total different things (and yes, you can find very bad IPS screens on the market, for example with blinking or with very bad contrast).
Some Snapdragon laptops had worse power usage than Lunar Lake even in Notebookcheck tests.
All questions are valid - Apple could cut off costs on some components.
You guys do realize it's an IPS panel right? ..so I don't understand why asking about pwm and temporal dithering..?
Standby battery life and how much % battery drain lost during sleep is a windows x86 issue. It's fixed on arm windows devices and isn't an issue at all on arm macs. So probably barely loses anything.
pls check PWM, temporal dithering existence, how many reflections are on the screen (comparing to Air), reader mode battery life (no wifi, small brightness, idle, etc.), real battery usage (for example how many % is going down after some time in off / sleep), usage of disk for memory swapping (comparing to Air), availability of smartctl
The new Apple MacBook Neo has arrived and we started our tests of the base model for $599. How is our initial impression and is the smartphone processor Apple A18 Pro powerful enough for a laptop?
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