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14 MBP battery is the worst in this comparison
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I probably do. But screen brightness is no doubt a big part of that figure. At full brightness the battery life in the browsing test went down more than half.
How about this?
I actually didn't reduce or change brightness at all in those screenshots I showed you.
Y'all think your M1 macbooks have bad battery life..........................................................
"You want to experience my battery life?"
- Intel MacBook/MacBook Air gang
100 to zero in no time record drainage.
Reference= I own one and hate the battery life
"You want to experience my battery life?"
- Intel MacBook/MacBook Air gang
100 to zero in no time record drainage.
Reference= I own one and hate the battery life
I can't believe how all the fanboys who used to sing prayers to apple computers just a few years ago are now calling all of those computers garbage.
I noticed this yesterday. My temps were higher than normal and WindowServer was the culprit. Rebooting didn't work for me but force quitting it and logging in again fixed it for a day. It happened again just a couple hours ago and I didn't catch exactly what I was doing that may have triggered it.
Hey, how's Capture One Pro running for you? Is there any stuttering when navigating through images quickly in full screen mode? You wouldn't happen to have a 5K external monitor too would you?
Is Capture One Pro on an M1 Pro hard on the battery the way it is on an Intel Mac?
I've got an M1 Max on order and I'm wondering if it's overkill. I've currently got an i7 w/a Vega20 and it's a bit short of my ideal photo editing battle station.
Capture One Pro is running like a dream! The M1 stuttered a bit but the M1 Pro doesn't miss a single beat. Not even when I connect the thing to my LG 34WK95U, which does have 5K resolution.
And no, it isn't hard on the battery. I almost never close Capture One Pro now unless I absolutely have to. The app basically sits on its own desktop all the time.
For this problem? I'm not sure if it's applicable in your case, but in my case, it was due to Logitech Options. I just turned off the automatic update feature in that app and it has been fine for over a day now. Crossing my fingers that was it.
I don't have any timed tests but my 14" M1 Max 10/32 model feels like it has a much more robust battery than my outgoing 16" i9/5500M intel MBP. On the intel machine just browsing the web on anything more complicated than a Google search result page would ramp the fans and cause undue power draw, tanking the battery quickly. This M1 Max 14" is much more resilient to heavier tasks not taking tons of your battery. It may not last all day but it's very respectable given that this thing is the most powerful content creation notebook on the planet especially in its size, weight, and power consumption class. I feel like I could blink and my battery would be at 1/4 on my 16" i9, and that so far never seems to be the case on the M1 Max, it's much more predictable.
I feel like I can get much more done on a charge than my 16" intel, even if it predictably doesn't last as long as the 16" may. My only comment would be I wish Apple somehow tossed in another set of efficiency cores or something - and allowed for dynamic disabling of most of the performance cores until needed. As in, a way for this machine to act electrically like a vanilla M1, then pushing power to the rest of the CPU/GPU cores when dynamically needed.
I feel like I can get much more done on a charge than my 16" intel, even if it predictably doesn't last as long as the 16" may. My only comment would be I wish Apple somehow tossed in another set of efficiency cores or something - and allowed for dynamic disabling of most of the performance cores until needed. As in, a way for this machine to act electrically like a vanilla M1, then pushing power to the rest of the CPU/GPU cores when dynamically needed.
Not every laptop model can be everything to everybody, all at once.
That’s what why they sell more than one model. ??♂️
That’s what why they sell more than one model. ??♂️
If you're posting to MacRumors, you've probably got a fairly interesting setup on your computer. All of us are holding wildcards that could potentially skew performance results.
I've had curiously bad battery endurance in the past even when not doing anything heavy. I had to do with one of my too many apps that launch automatically on login. I disabled most of my login items and my battery results got better instantly.
I canceled my order for an M1 Max and went with a 16GB M1 Pro instead after hearing from you that Capture One Pro was running almost perfectly for you. It wasn't the only reason I downgraded, but it helped me confirm the conclusion I was coming to now that there's a lot more results out there to evaluate.
I wonder if it would be better to talk about current battery capacity and amperage / power draw during people's usage as these numbers really tell what is going on. If I tell you that after 1h of usage it shows 80% left or whatever hours, this doesn't say anything about either my battery health or my workload.
But if I tell you that my battery has a full capacity of 5000mAh and my power draw while using just safari, writing this post is 3.8W (or even better Amperage is 323mA) you can tell if my battery sucks or for some weird reason my macbook is drawing too much power. You can also tell that I could do this for 5000/323= 15.5h
Changing the brightness of my screen to 100% bumped the power draw to 800-900 mA so obviously my total time will drop by at least a half (5000/800 = 6.25h)
If someone says that while browsing the web they use 1000mA it means that something is running on the system, in the background eating cpus, or they use 100% brightness, or the websites they are browsing are full of some sort of scripts, bitcoin miners or ads. Activity Monitor should tell more
There are free battery apps in apple store which can show all this information.
These were just example numbers
My full capacity at the moment is almost 6000mAh (98.5% health) and I use around 350ma -600ma while surfing with about 20 tabs open in my safari, stocks app in the background and about 40% brightness of the screen.
Meaning I could do that somewhere between 6000/400 = 17 h and 6000/600 = 10h
Browsing facebook can use even >1000mA on my macbook ? so it does matter what websites you are looking at …
But if I tell you that my battery has a full capacity of 5000mAh and my power draw while using just safari, writing this post is 3.8W (or even better Amperage is 323mA) you can tell if my battery sucks or for some weird reason my macbook is drawing too much power. You can also tell that I could do this for 5000/323= 15.5h
Changing the brightness of my screen to 100% bumped the power draw to 800-900 mA so obviously my total time will drop by at least a half (5000/800 = 6.25h)
If someone says that while browsing the web they use 1000mA it means that something is running on the system, in the background eating cpus, or they use 100% brightness, or the websites they are browsing are full of some sort of scripts, bitcoin miners or ads. Activity Monitor should tell more
There are free battery apps in apple store which can show all this information.
These were just example numbers
My full capacity at the moment is almost 6000mAh (98.5% health) and I use around 350ma -600ma while surfing with about 20 tabs open in my safari, stocks app in the background and about 40% brightness of the screen.
Meaning I could do that somewhere between 6000/400 = 17 h and 6000/600 = 10h
Browsing facebook can use even >1000mA on my macbook ? so it does matter what websites you are looking at …
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