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Microsoft is Forcing me to Buy MacBooks - Windows Modern Standby

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What it is

Linus Tech Tips explains how Windows Modern Standby causes laptops to drain battery while asleep, arguing it makes Windows laptops hard to recommend compared to MacBooks.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN links it as the standard reference whenever laptop sleep and battery drain on Windows come up, including the later point that nothing has improved.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “tl;dw: It may not be a Linux/OS problem, but rather a BIOS problem”

    Explains battery drain as possibly BIOS problem

    chmod775, 2022-12 · Recommendation · in “Tell HN: The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is an excellent MacBook replacement”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: modern standby, battery drain, windows laptops, sleep states, macbook

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