Introducing the new and upgraded Framework Laptop

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Concerning battery life, the XPS 13 has the same 55Wh.
With a moderate usag and an OLED display they get 5H to 6H45 batterie with a TDP of 20W.
Without an OLED display eventually framework laptop will get 4H to 5H45 ???
Will it possible to go down to ~15W TDP when on battery like U series, because 4H is very limited. (I get 5H with 2018 thinkpad E590 45wh)

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Would it be possible to shutdown some P cores to have only two active like on the 15W U series ???

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Bottom line I want to be on the move for the day and be sure I can count on my laptop for websurfing and video for the day;) 5H is what I have on my current laptop and its the spor where you have to think about it… If I work 4H at a café I have to find a plug… getting to 6-7H is the sweet spot.

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Yes, it should be in BIOS.
Also you should be able to set artificial power limits in Throttlestop!

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Do you mean you already have this kind of option in the bios of 11th gen framework ?

Concerning throtlestop I remember play in ng with it back in the day with not much success. Was more fun playing trying to undervolt the CPU with intel stuf.
Now on linux.
I suppose tuning power consumption this new tech intel 12th gen will take quite some efforts and updates to bios and linux kernel

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Yup, we can disable cores (not specific ones though), as well as disable turbo and Hyper-Threading etc in bios.

Throttlestop has a lot of options that don’t work with most CPUs these days, but Power Limits are still useful!

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Can you tell us if the modules have been improved Hardware wise with this release of the framework gen 2 ?

A lot of issues have been discussed here on idle power consumption, disconnections, power shortages …

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12th gen mainboards are now available for purchase on the marketplace (even in Europe).

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