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Is anyone *actually* getting 10-11 hours of battery life on MBP 16?
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OK, guess I don't know how to tell the passage of time when using my machine over the past 5 months then.
Maybe yours works.Or maybe you’re willing to settle for a lie.
Apple’s estimates are usually very accurate and not tied to ascetic use scenarios. I’ve never owned a product that got less than 50% battery lode when used in normal conditions.
Apple’s estimates are usually very accurate and not tied to ascetic use scenarios. I’ve never owned a product that got less than 50% battery lode when used in normal conditions.
Here's Toms Hardware and Tech Radar both with over 10 hours on their tests:
Apple MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) review
The 16-inch MacBook Pro (2019) delivers greatness at a steep price
Apple MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) laptop review
The best MacBook Pro Apple has made yet
Also, yes their tests have always been tied to specific scenarios, its in their footnotes of all of their battery life claims of the exact scenario they ran to achieve the battery life indicated.
I am getting around 6-7 hours. I have many Safari tabs open, and many other apps are running. I use my MBP mostly for productivity tasks.
I haven't gone from full to empty to test it, but I can easily do an 8 hour work day on Citrix unplugged. I don't even have to disable turboboost, as I never see it go over 2-2.4ghz anyway when I'm doing my job on Citrix. 2.4/5500
There's no way you're getting that. I often see 11 hours predicted when I'm at or near 100%. 4 hours later my battery is dead. Most I've gotten is around 6 with turbo boost off, dimmed to 50% and only using safari. If you need to use Chrome you're looking at 3 hours maybe. I'm running an i9 2.3ghz.
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People have been levying the same complaints as you since last November. Look up some other threads.
That's totally wild -- what other settings do you have? I've only ever gotten a quarter of that on a similar test.
I can get around 11 hours from doing writing, web surfing (Safari) and email.
Power-up Parallels and some developer tools, and it can fall to five hours.
What is running makes a huge difference. All the difference in fact. Don't wave it off. I spent a lot of time experimenting with Coconut Battery many years ago looking at what causes power usage to go up and down. I suggest you do the same. There are huge swings of power, and one simple thing like running brightness at 100%, or Chrome with certain websites, can easily half your battery life.
Some people getting a few hours and others getting ten is entirely possible without anything being wrong.
Power-up Parallels and some developer tools, and it can fall to five hours.
What is running makes a huge difference. All the difference in fact. Don't wave it off. I spent a lot of time experimenting with Coconut Battery many years ago looking at what causes power usage to go up and down. I suggest you do the same. There are huge swings of power, and one simple thing like running brightness at 100%, or Chrome with certain websites, can easily half your battery life.
Some people getting a few hours and others getting ten is entirely possible without anything being wrong.
All i did was run VLC, turn off my wifi, britness to max and i also have the system scaled display wise to be one option larger vs stock osx (which does improve battery life with lower res).
Using gswitch to lock the Igpu on.
Anything that uses the chromium engine (chrome, slack, zoom, Spotify ) will kill the battery life and top it at 5-6 hours. This is because developers have become lazy and use electron to write their apps instead of implementing them natively.
I get around 8-9 hours with light programming (jupyter notebook), several safari windows open with > 20 tabs, PowerPoint, word etc.
If I open something that causes the GPU to run (Matlab) or use any adobe software, battery life will tank as expected if the dGPU is activated
I get around 8-9 hours with light programming (jupyter notebook), several safari windows open with > 20 tabs, PowerPoint, word etc.
If I open something that causes the GPU to run (Matlab) or use any adobe software, battery life will tank as expected if the dGPU is activated
I'll have to experiment. Would be helpful to see wattage drawn at all times at the top of the screen. Do you need Coconut Battery Pro for that functionality? I guess I could run Spotify in Safari.
I have to use Chrome for work, but I'm generally always plugged in for that. I hate it and I know it sucks resources. But I'm disappointed Firefox is *still* drawing too much power. I'm not a Safari fan but I can live.
I don't remember having to be this careful on Windows, but I also never dropped $3,500 on a laptop before so I didn't pay as close attention.
Managed to get 8 hours with 20% battery left, so I guess my machine does perform as intended. My usage in those cases were text processing and light web browsing with Safari. Sometimes iCloud Photo sync goes wonky and I had to repair the Photos library to stop the cloudphotod from consuming excessive CPU time. OneDrive syncing and indexing also consumes a lot of power when there are significant file movements.
Still not buying it, folks.
Low brightness. Safari, WhatsApp, Messages, Word and Notes.
Two tabs in Safari (MacRumors and NYT.)
Low current draw (7-11 watts).
= Est. 7 hours. WTF.
Low brightness. Safari, WhatsApp, Messages, Word and Notes.
Two tabs in Safari (MacRumors and NYT.)
Low current draw (7-11 watts).
= Est. 7 hours. WTF.
Not following the argument on this thread. And 7 hours on an i9 laptop is already very good on the Windows side.
The second post in this thread already stated the specific configuration AND condition that Apple used for battery life claim. I don't really understand the OP's insistent on getting the same even though his/her usage is completely different.
I have made peace that with any laptops, ~4 to 5 hours with my usage scenario is typical. Anything longer is bonus, regardless of the manufacturer claim. Apple intel laptops use similar/same hardware as Windows laptops.
The second post in this thread already stated the specific configuration AND condition that Apple used for battery life claim. I don't really understand the OP's insistent on getting the same even though his/her usage is completely different.
I have made peace that with any laptops, ~4 to 5 hours with my usage scenario is typical. Anything longer is bonus, regardless of the manufacturer claim. Apple intel laptops use similar/same hardware as Windows laptops.
Waaaiiiit a minute ...
Standby on this one.
It appears I will need to see this particular test through. With possible egg on my face at the end.
Standby on this one.
It appears I will need to see this particular test through. With possible egg on my face at the end.
let us know how it goes. I've tried some of these tests with a reasonable amount of real life use -- a few safari tabs, iTunes, word, with low brightness and it somehow never really gets past 6.