High-demand tasks for the Surface Book 2 swamp a plugged-in battery
Mark Coppock at Digital Trends has just published the results of a series of tests that he ran on Microsoft’s flagship Surface Book 2. Running Destiny 2 at high resolution/frame rate, or Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018 video editing app, caused the battery indicator to drop, even though the SB2 was plugged into the wall and fully charged.
Says Coppock:
The power supply on the 15-inch Surface Book 2 holds it back from being the portable workstation it seems to be at first glance … the Surface Book 2 15-inch comes with a 95-watt power supply. The notebook’s components, however, can consume more power than that when they’re running at full speed.