Surface Book 2 battery may drain when plugged in and gaming

[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.

[peterb]

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.

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

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

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

[Xlucine]

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!

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