16-inch M2 Max Battery Life?

[DocBrownMacMan]

Does anybody have real world experience in terms of the 16-inch M2 Max's battery life? Do this year's improvements make its battery last as long as the 16-inch M1 Pro from last time around, or is that expecting too much?

 

[eliehass]

Got mine earlier this week. Worked on it unplugged for the first time today. Started my day at 9am 100% battery life. It's almost 5pm now and I'm at 50% battery. I had it in lower power mode and the display at half brightness. This was while doing coding, web browsing, document/spreadsheet editing, messaging, and zoom meetings.

I'm more than happy with the battery life.

 

[lavrishevo]

It has fantastic battery life particularly when not under heavy load

 

[DocBrownMacMan]

Sounds like it has pretty good battery life then. Any issues with it getting overly hot or the fans running a lot?

 

[Onimusha370]

I think doing light tasks it’ll be a battery monster due to the greater number of efficiency cores compared to the M1 Max. Wouldn’t expect additional heat/battery drain unless you’re really pushing it to its limits 🙂

 

[Burnincoco]

Sounds like it has pretty good battery life then. Any issues with it getting overly hot or the fans running a lot?

26:51 hours of video playback on the MAX is pretty, pretty, pretty good

Apple MacBook Pro 16-Inch (2023, M2 Max) Review

Apple's 2023 flagship, the MacBook Pro 16-Inch marries a proven, immaculate design with a fireball M2 Max CPU for fierce power in media creation, gaming, and high-end professional tasks. (Plus, it lasted nearly 27 hours on our battery test.)

www.pcmag.com

 

[DocBrownMacMan]

I wish there was a chart like that comparing it directly to the 16-inch M1 Pro since that was the battery champ last time around.

 

[iMacDragon]

I wish there was a chart like that comparing it directly to the 16-inch M1 Pro since that was the battery champ last time around.

I'd really like to know the direct effect of the three levels of cpu too 19/30/38, I originally oped for the 30 to balance, but perhaps the full 38 would have been ok.

 

[lambertjohn]

I get 20 hours out of my 16" M1 Pro. Pretty phenomenal.

 

[eliehass]

I wish there was a chart like that comparing it directly to the 16-inch M1 Pro since that was the battery champ last time around.

I believe apples official metrics show the m2 16 inch gets 1 more hour of battery than the m1 16 inch