Battery Life

[Nutmegz]

How is everyone's battery life doing on the SP4 i5?

Side Question: is google chrome a battery hog still?

 

[leeshor]

Side answer. Google claims that Canary has solved some of the battery hog issues. Fact, not really.

 

[Nutmegz]

Maybe that's why my battery is draining in 3-4 hours. Just wish edge had extensions for my password manager.

 

[leeshor]

Use Firefox. Some plugins are coming for Edge, maybe as soon as next month.

 

[MartyB]

My battery life is much worse than on SP3 i3. Maybe four hours. I couldn't figure out why until I noticed that several windows processes (driver framework, service host) were eating up 50% of cpu consistently. When that happens, I have to restart to make it stop. Happens every time the WiFi crashes and resets itself.