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I'm curious how long the battery lasts. That thing must have a beefy discrete GPU given Razer's pedigree.

I'm guessing 2 hours might be wishful thinking (which is actually OK for me, since I'm plugged in >90% of the time).

> I'm curious how long the battery lasts. That thing must have a beefy discrete GPU given Razer's pedigree.

I guess that the dGPU is only used when all three screens are extended or an application that requires a dGPU is running. Similarly to MBPs which by default use the Intel GPU and only on demand switch to the dGPU.

I think the latest onboard Intel graphics (the ones used on gaming laptops at least) can drive a trio 4k screens [1] - I assume that would allow the battery last longer when not gaming. FWIW (anecdotal), I have a 4K non-touch Windows laptop with nVidia dGPU switching, and I can barely get 3h on battery (am a heavy Chrome user).

[1] http://ark.intel.com/products/88967/Intel-Core-i7-6700HQ-Pro...

That might be due to a lack of Chrome optimization on Windows - on OS X Chrome activates the dGPU for me only when something employs WebGL or plays any form of media.

Not just any beefy discrete GPU... a GTX 1080.

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