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For the 14" owners, what's your battery life like so far?
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Following on from my other post, first time I've charged to 100%. My first charge was only to 80% and had a 10% loss per hour.
Just used this for 1 hour and still on 100%. That's the buffer in play.
Nice. Can you keep us updated? I’ve had some time to play with the 16 and I don’t think I can handle the weight and size, but I’m still leaning towards it over the 14 primarily because of the 14’s reported subpar battery life.
The battery is partially to blame for the weight. So, if you can't live with the weight the compromise is slightly less battery.
I don't know your use cases but I wouldn't worry at all about the battery.
So far it has lasted incredible well. Easily a full day of use 8+ hours if not 10+ hours of screen on time.
I also have a M1 MBA which has battery life similar / same to the 16" MBP and really the difference between my 14" MBP and M1 MBA is barely noticeable.
I don't know what your baseline / benchmark / expectations are, they may differ from mine, but I think the battery is incredible. My previous MBP had a battery that needed a service and it barely last 3-4 hours. So this is a huge upgrade.
I’m not a Pro but I’ve been blessed with the battery life of the M1 MBP which is unbelievably good. decisions, decisions
Web dev checking in here. I have the base 14", wanted to give it a few days of setting up/indexing/etc before I gave some decent input. I mainly work in VScode (couple environments), listening to Spotify, usually have about 12 tabs open in Chrome, Slack, Tweetbot, Messages, iTerm and a few others.
I left the house topped off at 100% today, 1.5 hours in and I'm at 96% battery... Honestly this thing has exceeded my expectations. iStat menus is reporting I have another 11.5 hours to go ?, so that would pan out to about ~13 hours. I like to work remote quite a bit so I really didn't even consider the 16". I was thinking I would maybe get around 9 based on what they advertised in the keynote, pleasantly surprised here! This machine is something else.
I left the house topped off at 100% today, 1.5 hours in and I'm at 96% battery... Honestly this thing has exceeded my expectations. iStat menus is reporting I have another 11.5 hours to go ?, so that would pan out to about ~13 hours. I like to work remote quite a bit so I really didn't even consider the 16". I was thinking I would maybe get around 9 based on what they advertised in the keynote, pleasantly surprised here! This machine is something else.
As long as it lasts longer than my current 2016 13" (15 minutes, tops), I'll be happy 
This is amazing and very similar to my usage. Thank you so much for sharing.
Can you please keep us updated on how it’s going as the day progresses and post a screenshot of the battery preferences screen once it gets close to dying?
For my usage it gets between 11-13 hours, depending on brightness level (I have it on auto). To be honest, I was worried about battery life, but this is not like Intel laptops. While the 13" M1 has better battery life, this laptop seems to lose much less battery when on standby. The 14" MBP has enough battery to last for a full working day and possible the whole evening too.
Following up, I only did a half day on battery yesterday. But it was pretty consistent with the estimated time as the day went on. After about 4 hours on battery, iStat Menus said I had a little over 10 hours left. That roughly equates to a 13-14 hour off battery until empty/0% with the given applications open/running above.
I'll see about trying to run down the battery completely next week, just a bit difficult since I'm usually docked to 2 x 27" 4K monitors while I'm home.
The Verge has done their reviews of these machines and I'm very excited to get mine!
The M1 Pro 16" has the best battery life, while jumping to the Max drops down battery with the extra GPU cores.
The 14" M1 Pro = The 16" M1 Max it seems.....
I got the 14" M1 Max with 24c so I'm curious to see how it performs when I receive it. I honestly think it's still worth it, as I rarely stray from being plugged in. It'll be worth it for the bump in performance you get from the M1 Max
Whoa! Verge said the 16" Pro gets 16 hours of battery life, but the Max only gets 10 hours. The Max reduces battery life by 6 hours? Could that be right?
If so, I'll definitely be returning the 14" Max I got in favor of a 14" Pro. I am not willing to sacrifice almost 40% battery life for the relatively small increase in performance.
If so, I'll definitely be returning the 14" Max I got in favor of a 14" Pro. I am not willing to sacrifice almost 40% battery life for the relatively small increase in performance.
14" base owner here. Yes, I get less battery life than my m1 air and pro, but I worked yesterday and am still working today on the same charge with 71% left. I will likely get through two work days on the same charge. That is more than enough for me. I am satisfied so far.
"The 16" with the M1Pro is the longest lasting laptop I tested, like period. The others don't last that long but they are still exceptional." So that's the good news.
The bad news is indeed, M1Pro vs M1Max seems to be a very big step down in battery life. The video editor says she does 4:15 hours on the 16" M1Max and with the same heavy workload, 4:00 hours on the 14" M1Pro. It's making me reconsider if the M1Max is right for me. I might want to downgrade to the M1Pro. Particulary because they explicitly state afterwards that those extra GPU cores seem to use battery even when not used.
That's my only real concern with this Max 14" model but just FYI, I don't think it's a small increase in performance. If your workflow consists of GPU heavy tasks then you'll benefit from the M1 Max. GPU helps with exporting in FCP, Premiere, After Effects, etc.
So it's a tough call. I like what the M1 Max brings and GPU performance I think is key in the next few years of longevity of the laptop.
For me, I think I'll stick with the Max as I'm rarely on battery as it is with WFH and having my charger with me
8 hours is pretty poor compared to the 12-18 hours you get on the M1 Air and M1 MBP. I have the M1 MBP and I legitimately get 15-18 hours.
* light use - emails, word, excel, YouTube, twitter, telegram, slack
Yeah. I don't really do much video or stuff that is GPU-heavy. I do a lot of photo editing, but I don't think Lightroom or Photoshop will use the extra GPU cores, right?That's my only real concern with this Max 14" model but just FYI, I don't think it's a small increase in performance. If your workflow consists of GPU heavy tasks then you'll benefit from the M1 Max. GPU helps with exporting in FCP, Premiere, After Effects, etc.
So it's a tough call. I like what the M1 Max brings and GPU performance I think is key in the next few years of longevity of the laptop.
For me, I think I'll stick with the Max as I'm rarely on battery as it is with WFH and having my charger with me
I'll probably end up returning for the Pro. Too bad, because the lead time on a new Pro with 32 GB of RAM is 7+ weeks!
I am in the exact same situation. Just read their review this morning - wow. That's significant impact. I need someone to do a more scientific rundown test.