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Microsoft is Forcing me to Buy MacBooks - Windows Modern Standby

Linus Tech Tips · 4.3M views · 2022-12-03 · 11:06

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Overview

Linus Tech Tips explains how Windows Modern Standby causes laptops to drain battery while asleep, arguing it makes Windows laptops hard to recommend compared to MacBooks.

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HN links it as the standard reference whenever laptop sleep and battery drain on Windows come up, including the later point that nothing has improved.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2022–2026

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chmod775 · 2022-12 · Recommendation

> After several nights of losing all my free time after work only to wake up the next morning to a dead laptop battery, I treated myself to an m2 13” mbp. LTT just did a video on this: [VIDEO] tl;dw: It may not be a Linux/OS problem, but rather a BIOS problem, which would explain why nothing you did helped. Getting a MBP is valid fix if you disable "Wake for network access" on it.

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arcologies1985 · 2026-02 · Joke / meme

Probably because "Windows Modern Standby" makes laptops unusable by turning them on in your backpack and cooking them. [VIDEO]

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trenchpilgrim · 2025-10 · Reference

> I just want my laptop to sleep and awake properly, without draining the battery. To be fair this is _also_ a massive problem on Windows too, because of Windows Modern Standby encouraging laptop makers to replace ol' reliable S3 sleep with the terribly broken modern standby stuff. Macbooks and certain Framework models are the only laptops left with reliable sleep. Old video but nothing's really improved since: [VIDEO]

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