M1 Pro - Battery much worse after a month

[stoobysnax]

At first, battery life seemed great. Now, 3/4 weeks later I feel like after 2 - 3 hourss it's drained a lot, and it drains even when the lid is shut. 4 hours and its almost toast. Now, this is doing actual work in Logic Pro X, but still, I was expecting a lot longer.

Anyone else having these issues?

 

[jav6454]

M1 Pros run on just 2 efficiency cores, it's expected battery won't last as long. Also, how many have apps open when going to sleep?

 

[flapflapflap]

At first, battery life seemed great. Now, 3/4 weeks later I feel like after 2 - 3 hourss it's drained a lot, and it drains even when the lid is shut. 4 hours and its almost toast. Now, this is doing actual work in Logic Pro X, but still, I was expecting a lot longer.

Anyone else having these issues?

do you have the 14"

 

[TinyMito]

No but get iStat, idle should be around 5w with screen 50% brightness. Anything higher than 5w idle, something is running in the background.

 

[ctjack]

4 hours of intensive work is pretty hard on the battery and equals to 10+ hours of lazy surfing or youtube.
I had dell laptop back in the days and retina MBP13 2012 - both gave me 8 hours of screen time on office apps, but you could easily drain them to 0 in 2.5 hrs under full load.

 

[stoobysnax]

do you have the 14"

Nope, 16"

 

[flapflapflap]

Nope, 16"

sorry to hear, I am not having such issues with my 16" M1 Pro. Battery is still incredible.