Framework 13 Battery life in Bluefin DX?

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What sort of battery life do you all get with the framework 13?

it seems like I get 5.5-6 hours of battery life using the Intel 12th gen 1280p mainboard. Is that normal? I’d like to know what other get (especially if you mostly use a browser and stick to lighter tasks)

I keep the screen pretty bright and this laptop has the 2880x1920 screen plus the 55Wh battery. So far I’ve been doing pretty light tasks: VS Code, Obsidian, Web Browser (accessing text-based web pages), terminal, other light tasks. I stick with “power saver” mode and “balanced” mode.

By the way, this is the best Linux experience I’ve had! (though I’m still adjusting and adapting).

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That sounds to me pretty great battery life specifaclly if your screen brightness is high.

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On my Acer Nitro 5 with Nvidia GTX 3050 Ti mobile, balanced mode, minimal brightness I get 2-3 hrs battery.

I’m jealous :wink:

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Thanks for sharing your perspectives! Yes, I keep the brightness near max. I lowered it to about 50% and here’s my fastfetch output:

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Looks like that might make a pretty big difference… :sweat_smile:

(Note: previously, when I mentioned 5.5-6h of battery life, I measured that value by using the computer. but it looks like fastfetch gives a pretty similar value)

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I am jealous - getting ~2.5 hrs of battery on my Acer Nitro 5 RTX 3050 Ti laptop.

Balanced mode, hybrid optimus, mid brightness, etc.

Looks like you will need to keep it plugged in most of the time if it bothers you.

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In my case I keep the automatic bright on. It is not very smooth and sometimes a bit annoying. More or less, like 8 hours. My laptop usage is very similar to you (Code, browser, terminal, text editors…). I do not manually set any energy profile.

Those 8 hours work for me. I plug it in now and then. To me, it is more annoying that sometimes it does not sleep when the lid is down and the laptop runs out of battery.

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Thanks, that’s super helpful—really appreciate you sharing your experience! It sounds like your Framework is getting noticeably better battery life than mine.

On my 1280P mainboard, I can maybe get close to 8 hours, but only if the system is barely doing anything and running in battery saver mode.

I ordered an AMD mainboard (Ryzen AI 9 HX 370) and your post gives me some cautious optimism about battery life improving. I’m also hoping for other quality-of-life improvements.

Can’t wait to swap out this Intel 1280P! The fan noise on the 1280P drives me nuts (though I’ll admit I’m pretty sensitive to that kind of thing). With the 1280P I am constantly switching to “Power Saver” mode (when the fans get annoying) and to “Balanced” mode (when the slow performance gets annoying)… I need the computer to stay silent during basic workloads like watching a video. This mainboard usually can’t do that.