Google Meet Battery Drain - M1Pro?

[benobi]

hey guys,

Trying to get some additional information on this. I am upgrading from an M1 MacBook Air to a 14" M1 Pro MacBook Pro and am alarmed at the battery drain, specifically during Google Meets with Safari. My battery drains over 20% in less than 1 hour. This seems to be more than double what I experienced using the M1 Air (1hour~ 10% battery loss). FWIW, meetings over Zoom do not seem to be hitting the battery as hard as Google Meet.

• Is this a normal amount of battery drain for this machine/processor?
• Any tips to reduce this battery drain? Would the updated Chrome help with this?

Thanks so much for your insight!

 

[dandyryan]

try using chrome and turn off hardware acceleration? google meet is a disaster

 

[4pp13]

hey guys,

Trying to get some additional information on this. I am upgrading from an M1 MacBook Air to a 14" M1 Pro MacBook Pro and am alarmed at the battery drain, specifically during Google Meets with Safari. My battery drains over 20% in less than 1 hour. This seems to be more than double what I experienced using the M1 Air (1hour~ 10% battery loss). FWIW, meetings over Zoom do not seem to be hitting the battery as hard as Google Meet.

• Is this a normal amount of battery drain for this machine/processor?
• Any tips to reduce this battery drain? Would the updated Chrome help with this?

Thanks so much for your insight!

This is worrisome to read about happening to a pro machine. I had M2 Air and had hanging in Google Meets (didn't actually keep track of what the battery was like) and I was blaming the M2 Air given a lot of other things were going on at the same time. Did you see any issues with the actual call or just battery drain?