Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Re: Power usage in Dell XPS 17

On 30.01.24 15:40, Jag Talon wrote:
> Unfortunately nothing about disabling a GPU in BIOS. I see everything
> else like Thunderbolt, fingerprint reader, microphone, etc. but no GPU.
>
> I'll keep looking and I'll check online as well perhaps I missed it!
>

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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