Finally good battery life with Intel: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 shows off Intel's efficiency progress

[Redaktion]

Intel laptops of the last few years had bad battery life. At long last though, it seems there is a light at the end of the tunnel: Intel Lunar Lake improves the power efficiency and thus battery life. The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is the perfect laptop to exemplify Intel's effiency development throughout the last years.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Finally-good-battery-life-with-Intel-Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-13-shows-off-Intel-s-efficiency-progress.932286.0.html

[Ryan Shultz]

It's not efficient. The unplugged performance drops severely.

[Worgarthe]

It's not efficient. The unplugged performance drops severely.

"Without a connected AC adapter, the CPU will run slightly slower. Performance is reduced by roughly eight percent."

[Troy Witthoeft]

Yikes.  Notebook check really needs someone to crosscheck their charts and data visualizations.

[Honestly]

I feel like much of lunar lakes potential is being wasted by OEMs.

If they stuck to lower resolution/Hz panels, we would be seeing significantly better battery life.

Instead they're using 1800p@120 so the net gains don't see as impressive due to all the associated overhead with it compared to a last gen device with a lower resolution/Hz panel.

[SiliconBaley]

It's time for Intel to get its act together, even though AMD laptops are still outperforming it.
The problem will be when Mediatek+Nvidia arrives in mid-2025 with ARM laptops that consume almost half of any X86.
Qualcom has already done a good job in its first foray, but in mid-2025 Qualcom and Nvidia arrive again and the laptop landscape can change completely, and if Windows with ARM improves even more.
In 2025 we will see a lot of competition from Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Qualcom, Apple and that will help to create better products at a lower price.