• Fubarberry
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    7113 days 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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        1712 days 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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        1612 days 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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          912 days 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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            612 days ago

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