The 34-Hour Laptop Is Here. Here’s Why Battery Life Has Exploded in Recent Years
Laptop performance ticks up with each new generation of processor. Generally speaking, you can expect this year’s laptops to be incrementally faster than those of the year before. With a new laptop, that might mean apps open a hair quicker, and multitasking feels a little snappier. Creators might see render times decrease by a few seconds, while gamers might eke out a few more frames per second.
These performance gains are generally small year to year, which is why the jumps we’ve seen in laptop battery life over the past few years are so jarring. It hasn’t just increased by a few minutes here and there. No, our lab data shows that laptop battery life has increased by leaps and bounds over the past six years — and especially this year. We saw the first big jump in battery life when Apple’s M1 MacBook Air made its debut at the...
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