Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Re: Power usage in Dell XPS 17

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Ah yes that's exactly my experience it looks like it might be the GPU at
fault. Good to know I wasn't the only one experiencing this.

Do people know if there's a way to somehow turn off the GPU outside of
BIOS? Perhaps there's no way around that?

On 1/30/24 11:54, Benjamin Stürz wrote:

> I had the same issue with my TUXEDO Polaris 17 (AMD) w/ an RTX 2060M.
> It was also not possible to disable the GPU in the BIOS,
> so the battery life was miserable (45 min).
>
> That's why I later bought myself a used Thinkpad T450 and then a T480,
> which both played very nice with OpenBSD.

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