The Ryzen 7 8840u is an amazing piece of silicon. I have one in an "off-the-shelf" mainstream laptop (a dirty cheap mainstream laptop - I just couldn't afford to buy a Framework), and it's completely silent under light/medium load. When compiling large projects and copying things to external M.2 NVMe drives at the same time (so 100% usage on all cores), the fans are definitely audible, but it's not a "hairdryer" noise - it's more like a "whoosh" airflow kind of noise (sorry, my onomatopoeia isn't that good). I love this thing, and it has become my daily driver (running Arch Linux with KDE Plasma). For light usage, I get around 9 hours of battery. Medium usage, around 7 hours. Heavy usage (i.e. almost continuously compiling), around 5 hours. One of the downsides was no option to adjust the VRAM reservation in the BIOS, but this was easily rectified with "Smokeless_UMAF".
The amount of battery life I regained in my old hp when it just sat there for a few months after I got desktop and then I came back to it and threw in hypland in place of gnome it's unbelievable. Try Wayland with something more minimal than gnome and it will blow your mind xd
Apparently the new Intel Arrow Lake chips do really well with battery life (although they have half the cores - they dropped hyper-threading, so multi-core performance suffers, if that's important to you). I've read some reviews saying it's comparable to Apple's M-series silicon. Personally, I'm pinning my hopes and dreams on RISC V 😉
The Ryzen 7 8840u is an amazing piece of silicon. I have one in an "off-the-shelf" mainstream laptop (a dirty cheap mainstream laptop - I just couldn't afford to buy a Framework), and it's completely silent under light/medium load. When compiling large projects and copying things to external M.2 NVMe drives at the same time (so 100% usage on all cores), the fans are definitely audible, but it's not a "hairdryer" noise - it's more like a "whoosh" airflow kind of noise (sorry, my onomatopoeia isn't that good). I love this thing, and it has become my daily driver (running Arch Linux with KDE Plasma). For light usage, I get around 9 hours of battery. Medium usage, around 7 hours. Heavy usage (i.e. almost continuously compiling), around 5 hours. One of the downsides was no option to adjust the VRAM reservation in the BIOS, but this was easily rectified with "Smokeless_UMAF".
The amount of battery life I regained in my old hp when it just sat there for a few months after I got desktop and then I came back to it and threw in hypland in place of gnome it's unbelievable. Try Wayland with something more minimal than gnome and it will blow your mind xd
Apparently the new Intel Arrow Lake chips do really well with battery life (although they have half the cores - they dropped hyper-threading, so multi-core performance suffers, if that's important to you). I've read some reviews saying it's comparable to Apple's M-series silicon. Personally, I'm pinning my hopes and dreams on RISC V 😉
My Chromebook says it's got over 10 hours playing youtube at half bright.