Battery Life on the new 14" MBP

[altdimension]

Like many of you I was very excited to see the new MBPs get unveiled on Monday - I almost ready to order immediately until I saw the quoted battery life for the 14" - 11 hours wireless web.

I have a 2020 13" 10th gen Intel MBP and whilst the quoted wireless web battery life is 10hours I usually see 3 - 5 hours with my daily use.

Question is, and perhaps for anyone with an M1 machine would be able to pitch in here, will I see better battery life with an M1 machine or is my workload/use of any MacBook always going to confine me to 4-ish hours?

What my dock typically looks like on a work day:

https://imgur.com/a/0RsNCi8

 

[MrGunny94]

You’ll get 8-10h but that’s mainly because of freaking teams hogging your resources until they make a native app.

 

[JohnnyGo]

You’ll get 8-10h but that’s mainly because of freaking teams hogging your resources until they make a native app.

Teams suck. No native support yet.

Any ARM based MacBook will give you much better battery life. Waiting to test the new low power mode as well.

Not sure about 10 hours running Teams and other MS apps. But you should certainly get 8h of use if you buy the new 14” MBP

 

[MrGunny94]

Teams suck. No native support yet.

Any ARM based MacBook will give you much better battery life. Waiting to test the new low power mode as well.

Not sure about 10 hours running Teams and other MS apps. But you should certainly get 8h of use if you buy the new 14” MBP

It's ridiculous how we are in fall 2021 and these MS guys didn't do anything with the Teams on Apple Silicon. The amount of memory this thing eats...

 

[tripleh3lix]

Maybe these "2 efficiency cores" are just as efficient than the 4 in the M1's.. and if they're not, they're among the top tier laptops. I know the 16" Macbook didn't have the best battery life.. and that's what these are. Just in ARM form, which should still be a massive improvement over anyone's current 16". Comparing this to a 13" M1, I don't think it will be beat.

I think if there was an option to turn off 120hz, without dipping into low power mode, we'd see a big increase in battery on these new 14" MacBook's. Obviously I see the M1 Pro's doing better with battery and being more efficient than the Max's, but time will tell. Would be great to turn it off.

I know the pro motion is "intelligent", but going into low power mode on the 13 Pro Max has taken my battery to the best battery life on a phone I've ever had. I was on a facetime audio call for 2 hours, while browsing and sharing media, and edited a quick video and I went down to 98%. It was never this good on low power mode on the phones beforehand, so cutting that refresh rate is super beneficial and it may be a good move for those really wanting to maximize battery.