Hey all, just wondering how the battery life is after you’ve had it for a while? I’m getting one soon and wondered if it would have a noticeable impact on the battery if it was on a dock for most of the time.

Cheers

  • tinylightshow@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    1 month ago

    I got mine pretty early on, one of the first waves to be shipped, and only issue I’ve had is having my battery level drop go zilch when switching to a 2.4Ghz Wifi network. Then I would have to plug it in, open the BIOS and switch to battery storage mode, unplug and wait about a minute. Plug it back in to boot it up, and battery levels are normal. I can fortunately just stick to 5Ghz networks nowadays and haven’t had a problem.

    • Matty_r@programming.devOP
      2·
      1 month ago

      That’s seems like a pretty specific issue. Did you try other networks or was always just one 2.4ghz network?

      • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
        3·
        1 month ago

        Lots of devices will kill their own battery to maintain Wifi connection rather than drop.

        When is happened to me, it’s always a combination of a specific place I’m sitting and a specific wifi access point.

        I haven’t, myself, noticed it happen to my SteamDeck, though.

      • tinylightshow@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        1 month ago

        It happens on any 2.4ghz network. I’m apparently not the only one, as there are some old reddit posts about it, too. It’s an oddly specific problem and I can’t figure out if it’s a software issue or if my battery really is borked.