Surface Book 2 battery may drain when plugged in and gaming

Interestingly it was apparently a dodgy powersupply:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/16/...-book-2-review

I know modern switch mode power supplies are designed by wizards, but it does sound like worrying quality control.

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Originally Posted by TheAnimus

Interestingly it was apparently a dodgy powersupply:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/16/...-book-2-review

I know modern switch mode power supplies are designed by wizards, but it does sound like worrying quality control.

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But the replacement didn’t fix the battery drain under heavy load problem.

Still, I can see a new advert appearing...

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I can plug my surface Pro while writing a children’s book/doing my job as a location scout and still drain the battery. I can’t do that with my Mac

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:)

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Originally Posted by riggie

If you ran your brand new car at full tilt 3 hours it would be wrecked or wouldn't even run 1 hour full speed. Why would you expect these wafer thin laptops to be gaming laptops? The next batch of laptops are set to defy gravity so you can't drop them!

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3 hours of heavy use will not break a car designed to go 200k+ miles. Really, a brand new car would probably be nicely broken in