Hello 
I’ve pre-ordered a FW12 last week. I don’t have a main use case besides liking the brand and loving this small form factor.
I would like to know the estimated battery life. No need to be set in stone, a ballpark works for me.
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I was wondering about this too, and here’s an estimation someone made. Not sure how accurate it is, but it’s something:
https://community.frame.work/t/would-a-laptop-12-be-worth-it-for-my-use-case/66761/4?u=adeline05
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oh it’s probably not, but I did my best to use systems with the same configuration. Also note that its a comparison to a lenovo laptop, and I trued to use total system idle/non load power draw of a system with as similar of a configuration and then calculated battery life based on the fact that the battery is 50wh. It’s not perfect definitely but it should be a ball-park ish estimate.
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I had Lenovo Ideapad Duet 5i with 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-1335U, 50Whr battery, during active use it could last around 1-3 hours. That CPU has almost exactly the same specs as i5-1334U.
After several months of use, I can confirm that battery life in a desktop environment (Xfce, Firefox with max 5 tabs with ad blocker, Thunderbird, and terminal) is approximately 3-4 hours.
Dissapointing for me. I will try https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/TLP if it helps.
I am really wondering how you get such short battery life. My battery lasts most of the day. I’m spec’d on the 12 with the i5 with 16gb ram. I run Arch with KDE. I do not use TLP (utilizing tuned) and have been running around 5+ hours on battery depending on what I am doing. Here is a graph of my energy use from my system:
That hardest drop was when I was playing Guild Wars 2 while on battery before plugging in. That tanked it pretty quickly, but I would expect that. My estimate from my system currently from 99% when I unplugged is 11 hours. Mind you it is at 5% brightness, but the screen is pretty bright on the 12 and I typically don’t need it to be over 50% to be very usable. This estimate is with 3 browser tabs with multiple add-ins in Firefox, Signal, the screenshot utility, the energy consumption panel, and strawberry music playing local files. Wifi and Bluetooth are both on. Turning the brightness to 50% changes the estimate to just over 9 hours, so I have no idea how you are managing to only get a handful of hours doing so little. Does upower give you expected health results for your battery?
What’s the screenshot about Energy Consumption?
The screenshot shows charge percentage, which is relevant to the conversation. Did you want to see the energy consumption graph?
IMO, the most important factor of battery life is not the battery capacity(second most important) but the energy efficiency of the chip, so it’s more informative if both are posted. Which mode were you using on tuned?
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Here are both with taken back to back so they align well for visual comparison. I am on the balanced tuned profile. I do not think I ever changed it from how it loaded when I installed Arch/KDE.
I think the energy consumption was pretty decent when not gaming, around 6W with wifi bluetooth enabled playing music
I agree and that is what I have found so far. The majority of what you see here is mild use like redjournal with strawberry playing music locally or perhaps some light web browsing. Most of the time when I’m doing something more intensive like a game or LLM locally I’m plugged in, though you can tell I unplug regularly because I don’t like being tethered to the wall. I have been impressed with the screen brightness and actually have been thinking about looking into ways to make it dimmer within my current setup because even at 0% it is still a bit bright for night use IMO.
I have a FW12, i3, 16Gb RAM. The system is dual-boot Debian/Win11, used 90%/10% respectively. I can manage 8-10 hours battery life with light usage in Debian, starting from an 80% [battery saver] charge. (never checked Win11, don’t use it much). Light use is Firefox for web content, email not much more.
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Rod