• @simple@lemm.eeOP
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    561 month ago

    The battery life test is even more damning. SteamOS in some cases had more than 2x better battery life.

    • Fubarberry
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      721 month ago

      Yeah you’re right, I had mostly been looking at the difference between the steam deck and legion Go S on that chart and barely even noticed the difference between windows on the legion Go S there.

        • @Laser@feddit.org
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          171 month ago

          It just indicates that Dead Cells itself isn’t very demanding, so the power draw in that game converges against idle draw where the issues are most apparent

        • Fubarberry
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          161 month ago

          Windows uses a lot of power just existing, so you can’t get any of the windows handhelds down to a low power consumption. I remember when the Rig Ally first came out, the verge tested it using 5-8w of power on the steam deck, and using 16-22w of power on the Ally. Some of that is the hardware (the Deck has a really power efficient chip for low power games), but a lot of it is windows.

          • @xavier666@lemm.ee
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            91 month ago

            This explains why Windows laptops just randomly start spinning their fans. Random energy consumption -> heat production increased -> fan spins

            • DremorM
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              61 month ago

              It takes a lot of power to send half your life to the other side of the world, to MS datawarehouse.

    • @pycorax@lemmy.world
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      21 month ago

      Do we know if it’s entirely coming from SteamOS? Iirc the advantages it had over Windows on the Steam Deck were not even anywhere remotely this pronounced.