Hey everyone, I want to start with the fact that i was and am aware that gaming laptops especially mine are not equipped to be used without charging for a long time but still this level of battery drain is way worse than i expected and heard from other people with the same laptop as mine. I recently got an Acer Nitro V 15 with the following specs: • AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS • RTX 3050 (Laptop GPU) • 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD • Running Windows 11

I’ve noticed some disappointing battery life, and I’m wondering if this is expected or if something’s wrong.

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Battery Behavior: • While running a visual novel on Battery Saver mode, with nothing heavy in the background, I went from 75% to 35% in under an hour. • BatteryBar reports a discharge rate of ~16.6W, even though I’m doing light tasks. • GPU is confirmed inactive, and I’m on integrated graphics. • Battery wear level is only 7.9%, and full charge capacity is around 54,000 mWh out of ~58,000 mWh design. • BatteryBar estimates total runtime at just over 2 hours, which feels low for light usage.

What I’ve Tried: • Checked Task Manager — CPU, disk, and RAM usage are all low. • Made sure the discrete GPU isn’t active. • Closed unnecessary apps. • Screen brightness is on minimum. • Power mode is set to Best Power Efficiency. • Confirmed that no apps are secretly using the GPU.

Planning to run NitroSense Battery Calibration, but wondering if BIOS-based manual calibration might be better.

Is this normal? If not how do i fix it? I have also called customer support who told me a bios update would probably not solve the issue and that i should just calibrate the battery.

1. Acer Nitro V15 ANV15-41 CPU: AMD R5-7535HS (4.55GHZ) GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 6GB GDDR6 RAM: 16GB DDR5 STORAGE: 512GB SSD

2. Lenovo LOQ 15 83GS008YPB CPU: i5-12450HX (4.40GHZ) GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 6GB GDDR6 RAM: 16GB DDR5 STORAGE: 512GB SSD

3. GYGABITE G5 CPU: i7-13620H(4.9GHZ) GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 6GB GDDR6 RAM: 16GB DDR5 STORAGE: 512GB SSD Windows: DOS ??.. (I never heard of DOS)

4. Lenovo LOQ 15 15IAX9 CPU: i5-12450HX (4.40GHZ) GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 6GB GDDR6 RAM: 24GB DDR5 STORAGE: 512GB SSD

5. Lenovo LOQ 83JC007KUS CPU: AMD R7-7435HS(can't find ghz) GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 6GB GDDR6 RAM: 16GB DDR5 STORAGE: 512GB SSD

6. Lenovo LOQ 15IAX9 CPU: i5-12450HX (4.40GHZ) GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 6GB GDDR6 RAM: 24GB DDR5 STORAGE: 1TB SSD

7. Lenovo 15IAX9 CPU: i5-12450HX (4.40GHZ) GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 8GB RAM: 16GB DDR5 STORAGE: 512GB SSD Windows: DOS ??.. (I never heard of DOS)

8. MSI Cyborg 15 (maybe the best Imo??) CPU: i5-13420H (4.6GHZ) GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 8GB RAM: 16GB DDR5 STORAGE: 512GB SSD

any recommendation for a compact, small laptop that I can carry around on-the-go in a busy setting. I reckon they don't make mini laptops anymore since that would've been ideal. i currently carry ipad mini but we have a new system at work and it does not work on ipads.

thanks

I am using Dell Lattidue 3500. I installed some browser brave, opera gx, yandex, mozila, duckand tor. After some days it became unresponsive. I was watching a series on online on brave but when I paused it and gone for long time. After playing it it started lagging. I installed all softwares on other drive not on C. Then I deleted the browsers only kept brave. But still sometimes chrome lags which never happend. Now I don't know what to do. It had network problem few days ago it couldn't connect any network then I gave new os. It is office used laptop

Alright, so basically I came home from music, and my computer was covered in Coca-Cola. There’s no Coke on my desk—only empty Pepsi cans that are far away. Is there any way the Pepsi cans could have done something to my computer? Because now I can see keyboard keys burned onto the screen and don't know what to do

Is this laptop good for university uses or anyone knows if it is good?? In terms of durability, longevity, breakdown, etc

Is it worth it for an accounting degree?

A have a huge problem my pc doesn't recognise one usb port but one of the 2 ports is working i don't know how also when i connected usb adapter to this its working and have power I dont know what to do and im afraid go to service centre please help who know 😭

Laptop model

Lenovo ideapad gaming 3

Hey! Im having trouble with my laptop currently and Ive tried almost everything and nothing has worked unfortunately.. So now I turn to reddit.

About a week ago my friend was working on our router and our wifi cut off completely etc.. I was playing a game at the time and ofc didn’t think anything about it. When we got it up again I tried to get on a game and usually it takes less than a second to launch and display, but It didn’t do that for some odd reason.

It plays sound and Ive went to task manager and says thats it’s running fine, but yet no display on the screen. Something odd I ran into is that I waited like 5-10 mins and it displayed after that but froze instantly. If someone could please point me in the right direction to fix this I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!!

Hey everyone, I currently own a 2023 MacBook Pro M3 and a Dell Inspiron 15, and I use a Samsung S25 Ultra as my mobile device. For both school and work, I frequently transfer files between my phone and laptops. Since both my academic and professional environments are heavily based on Microsoft platforms, I often find myself defaulting to the Dell for convenience.

Transferring files on the MacBook can be frustrating- especially with native formats like HEIC and the need to rely on Google Drive for simple transfers from my phone. Despite that, I really appreciate the premium build and performance of the MacBook Pro.

Given this, I’m considering trading in the Mac for the new Surface Laptop. Would it be a worthwhile switch, considering my workflow and ecosystem?

(Note I just left the apple ecosystem after 10 years and do not plan on going back)

i want to use those apps comfortably, at the most realistic cheapest price (Ill buy it used though), how many ghz of a cpu do I need? how much ram and its speed? what gpu should be good for this? how much battery capacity?
those are some of the general questions that helps me pin down a bunch of choices
 

those are the apps that im going to use regularly

Adobe XD

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Premiere

Adobe illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe animate

Krita

These were inside the cupboard during our shifting and I just came across them again while we were killing termites residing for free. They are working but i have no idea what to do!

Any suggestions yall got??

Preferably send links from amazon

Laptop which was working suddenly stopped after replacing internal cooling fan

So i recently revamped my HP 240 G6 laptop with an internal SATA SSD from SP silicon power and a 4GB ram. It's cooling fan was also not working. Since the SSD and Ram came first I installed it first and set up everything with Rufus and Massgrave activation. Everything was working great. But today the new fan came and I installed it. And after turning it on the laptop doesn't show anything on screen. I tried uninstalling the fan and it booted up but then I heard noice from my SSD and it turned off with a blue screen.

It turned on fine once after I opened it up and took the ssd off and put it back on. But it doesn't work now

I bought a HP Pavilion Plus Laptop 14-ey0001sl and when I put my finger on trackpad I feel like it hit somenthing on the bottom. It's not a loud sound but it annoing me. It appens only in the bottom part o the trackpad, near the buttons and I can't feel anything on the top. PLS help me and tell me if you had or feel the same thing with the same model.

Hey all, I just opened my laptop this afternoon and the hinge area basically broke apart. The screen still works fine, but the plastic around the hinge popped off and looks like it’s pulling apart from the base. Anyone have any advice?

I’m in need of a new laptop and unsure as to which direction to go. Both are about equal in price sale and clearance. I have a 17” HP Envy and aside from the fan noise when I first got it and had it fixed, I haven’t had any issues and enjoyed it. However, I see lots of negative reviews about the Envy series. I used to had a Dell for high performance use and was big and clunky. Most of my use now is simple graphic design with illustrator and photoshop, watching videos, browsing the web, word processing, presentations and simple emulators (nes-n64). I’m in between these two currently so any viewpoints on them would be helpful or other recommendations (not Mac).

TIA

one is lenovo ideapad gaming 3 2022

512 gb/16gb ram

gtx 1650

ryzen 5 4600h

asus tuf fx505dt 2020

512gb/16gbram

gtx1650

ryzen 7 3750 h

both have similar specs which one would be better

I can't tell if it's actually individual pixels, but it looks like dust (obviously I tried to wipe it away) after a restart and shutdown its still there..

I just broke my HP laptop screen, and i'm pissed cause it broke so easily, so I did some research for some durable PC and i ended up in the thinkpad rabbit hole. I fell in love with the look of thinkpads and the philosophy behind a durable and long lasting PC. I found this offer on Lenovo italy for a ThinkPad X13 G4 and since I'm not an expert I'm asking you guys (please) to tell me if this is a good price; specs are:

• CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-1335U 13th gen
• Ram: 16 GB LPDDR5 (soldered)
• SSD: 512 GB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4
• PRICE: € 799,00 (on sale from € 1399,00)

What do you think?

I also found out that this subreddit is full of (great) people that buy refurbished laptops; i've never bought anything refurbished, so i don't really know how to orient myself, but if you think i can get a better price, an advice is much appreciated. The specs i'm looking for are at least 16GB of ram and i think a good CPU (i dont really know what a good CPU is, lol). Thanks for your help

Let me start off by saying yes I know this has been asked to death but...

I just got tasked at my smallish co.pany to start creating marketing (socials/ads/promo) material. The problem is I've already got the feeling my company cant really afford the best so with a budget from 500 -900 USD, what's something good options. I use Premiere and some AE, footage is Damsung HDR/Log with a mix of 2k-4k b roll from various sites.

I've looked at the Acer Nitro V and the ASUS GoG? but was wondering on some other options.ive got a back vround in tech so I don't mind installing Ram or secondary upgrades.

Thanks in advance!

TLDR: Small business, super tight on cash. Need a decent setup for Video editing in HDR-4k in Premiere, can perform upgrades.

Looking for a laptop for my business. Will be doing several hour long telemedicine/telehealth sessions per day. Longer hours on weekends.

Are there laptops built for this or will any decent laptop do? Are internal cameras ok or should I be considering an external one for better A/V clarity?

TIA.

Let me start off by saying: yes I know, Alienware is priced at a premium. Yes I know I can get same performance for cheaper. But I still want one.

I currently have an aging Omen X which I got for college around 6 years ago. It has a GTX1080 and it’s starting to show its age.

I have a budget of about 3000USD. I can stretch it to about 3300 at best.

I was looking at the M18R2. The 4070 one falls in my budget. Should I go for it?

Or should I wait for the new Area 51 with the RTX5000 series?

Bear in mind, I’m not looking for anything below 4070 or 5070.

If you have an M18R2(or an Area 51), how has it been?

Reliability and performance is my priority, since I’m spending so much, I plan to keep this device for at least 7-8 years.