I recently reviewed the Samsung Galaxy Book 5 Pro, a solid laptop that lasted 12 hours and 25 minutes in our Laptop Mag battery life test. As I was writing my review, I found myself dwelling on the fact that this result that would have placed it on our list of the laptops with the best battery life just a year ago, but today it's not in screaming distance of making that list.
This isn't a case of a few outliers with long-lasting batteries, the new chipsets from Qualcomm, AMD, and Intel last year changed the game for Windows laptops. It's forced us to completely recalibrate our standards for good battery life in a laptop, but that's not all. We see laptops in virtually every category delivering a blend of performance and battery life that only Apple seemed to hold the secret to previously.
